Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe

Tag: family

  • Horse pills

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    That’s what I call two pills that are one, a multi-vitamin and two, oyster shell calcium that I take twice a day along with the other supplements. I don’t understand why they have to be so big. My former multi-vitamin was about 1/10th the size of a finger nail. This is a pharma mystery. In…

  • Change of Cast

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    These series draw you in and you find yourself watching more than however much time you have allotted for TV viewing. That is their job. It’s up to me to look at the clock and say ‘enough’. I’ve been caught up with viewing ‘The Crown’. Most of the story line, allowing for Artistic license, is…

  • John Lithgow

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    I started watching “The Crown” on Netflix. I thought it might be another rehash of the Diana story. But no. It takes on the history of the British royal family in the 1930s and 40s, roughly. But what stood out was how John Lithgow has really cornered the Winston Churchill character. Churchill has always stood…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Rainwater Catchment complete!

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    This is pretty big and great.  Six years ago a member of our large live/work non-profit began the process of applying for and getting a grant to construct a system that catches rainwater in three locations, purifies it in a large cistern and distributes it to our garden and neighbors.  Any overflow runs into the…

  • The deep brown See

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    Actually, my eyes aren’t brown. Closer examination makes them muddy hazel. Or maybe by the time one develops cataracts, the pigment has less intensity. I’ll ask the opthalmologist on Wednesday. If he’s in a good mood. I’ve seen him twice before for the left eye. On the first visit, he must have been having a…

  • Porte Bandera

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    June 14th is Flag Day. It was also the birthday of a fellow I used to work for, James Maxwell Baldwin. He was of British descent and sort of starchy. Which agrees with a sturdy flag. O’er the ramparts… imagine Betsy Ross making the first flag without a sewing machine. Durable in rain, sleet or…

  • Water galore

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    Today was going as planned. My to-do list was done and we had another pleasant, weekly Zoom chat with my sisters. I live in a large city block, three story building called Project Artaud after Antonine Artaud, the French revolutionary theater artist. In 1973, what was formerly the American Can Company was converted into artists’…

  • Dick

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    Dick Vivian is my dance partner from the KOFY TV20 days (clip on YouTube) That would be late ‘80s. Trying to import a photo here. It’s a long and happy story with many anecdotes. It began when Dick, who was working at the Alta Plaza restaurant, came into my salon and requested a haircut. While…