January 17, 2004
"Swimming to Cambodia’s" Spaulding Gray is missing. He has a history of depression.
According to a piece at Salon.com,
"When I'm doing my monologue, I'm in my element" he said in a 1997 Associated Press interview. "I am most me when I'm on stage. I'm getting closer to enjoying life. I tell my edited life story with ... more energy than the way I live my life."
"I tell my edited life story with...more energy than the way I live my life." That’s pretty much how I feel about blogging. He would make a great blogger, doncha think?
One of my favorite TV characters is Maxine Gray of "Judging Amy." As that character, Tyne Daly jokes about not being ready to wear purple; as herself, "At 50, she shaved her head to signify rebirth for the second half of her life."
And in an interview, about her character’s sex life: "Oh, yes. Sex after 60 seems to be quite interesting to people. It's certainly interesting to me," Daly said. "So that's kind of cute. Although I also am interested in a woman at any stage of the game being a whole unto herself and not having to rely on a man . . . to validate her."
A definitively deliberate Crone.
It’s a gray day outside. I wish my kitchen had a window.
A Need to See
Kitchens should have windows,
double wide and Windexed clear,
if not into sunny vistas,
then at least into patches of sky
edging shadowy trees,
clumps of day lililies,
maybe a lilac bush
or two,
certainly a full bird feeder --
so that there is always
lilting movement in sight --
and an indoor sill
where seeds germinate
all year long
above the dregs
in the tea-stained sink.
copyright Elaine Frankonis 04
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myrln on 17 Jan 2004
A terrific poem. Grey is also poetic.
Elaine of Kalilily on 18 Jan 2004
Thanks. :-)
I gave the poem a title since you were here before and changed the last line from "shadowy sink" to "tea-stained sink." Seeing out and seeing in is what I'm trying to get at.