Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe

Author: bijouokeefe1

  • Thank you notes

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    I have a whole lot of people to thank. So, I got some thank you notes. I think receiving a card in the mail is more personal than emailing them. But, I’m old fashioned. Next I’d like to tell Anthony Robert, who reads my blog, that his writing is very good. Keep at it as…

  • Movie sense

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    Production people who are responsible for impossible or unlikely scenes to work, must employ ‘tricks’. One movie I was watching, whose name was something like “Falling for Christmas”, Was about an heiress who goes skiing, goes over a cliff, bumps her head and has amnesia. She doesn’t know her name and a doctor tells her…

  • Louisa May Alcott

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    Now that my eyes are fixed, I’m enjoying reading again. I have an old copy of “Eight Cousins” by Louisa May Alcott, published 1891. It belonged to either Mom or possibly grandmother. There is a sequel called “Rose in Bloom”. The SFPL has Books by mail and I received the anthology. Now I can find…

  • Block Party

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    I called Dick’s record store, Rooky Ricardo’s on Haight, SF, to find out about any memorial planned for Dick? No, he didn’t want that. What they are in the early stages of planning is a block party around Christmas time. I gave them my contact info. Also, they may be able to transfer all the…

  • The ostrich has it easy

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    Yes, I mean burying one’s head in the sand. Patti made reference today about her good friend Sean, who came to visit her before his vacation. They both acknowledged, sadly, that it was likely the last time they would see each other. I definitely had that feeling when I visited grandmother for the last time.…

  • Endurance

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    My dance partner, Dick Vivian, died. I just found out. A D.J. Devoted an hour on KALW to his achievements and importance, especially to musicians. It’s true. Dick’s record store on Haight was a source of more than 45’s. Dick knew everything about music from the 50’s and 60’s. There was a brief mention of…

  • Venezuela

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    I was reading an article in the New Yorker about the crazy politics happening in Venezuela. Maria Corina Machado is poised to become President, running on an agenda of democracy. She received the Nobel and handed it to Trump in a gesture meant (I gather) to placate his desire for the prize and get U.S.…

  • Baby, it’s cold outside

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    Made it to the eye doctor today. I had set up rides from Paratransit, which allow a 25 minute window. You wait for their van on the sidewalk at the earliest point of the window. OK, it’s only 69%, however the wind is 20 mph, I’m waiting in the shade with no place to sit.…

  • Nothing is ‘new’

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    A professor I had for choreography once told the class we should not approach making dances as if we were inventing the wheel. Every movement phrase has an origin someplace. Where originality comes in is how a turn or lift is combined with music, timing, pause or silence. The possibilities are endless. The idea is…

  • a Beautiful Day in my Neighborhood

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    ‘forever wars’ aside, it was a Beautiful Day in my Neighborhood because I watched the Mister Rogers remake with Tom Hanks. Touching, feel-good and a bit of a tear jerker. Tom Hanks is the kind of actor that is a good fit for a spiritual activist like Fred Rogers. So, that was a definite mood…