Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe

Tag: fiction

  • 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…

  • 27 Nights – anti agist film

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    I had a day today that made me question if not my sanity, then why are public institutions so cumbersome? So, I was ready to relax with a dandy salad, a cup of tea and this film on Netflix, “27 Nights”. Set in Argentina, an 83 year old wealthy woman is incarcerated in a mental…

  • Cezanne et moi

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    I’ll make a deal with my iPad. I’ll figure out how to use accents over vowels if the iPad stops messing with my spelling. For example, I just wrote peut (French for first person ‘could’) and my computer turned it into Pete. So, Cezanne doesn’t have an accent over the first ‘e’. You know who…

  • Doctor hits patient in the eye

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    That’s not true. That is what the ophthalmologist suggested I tell people to explain my black eye. For real. He said that, to be humorous? Whatever, I do have a black eye now that the bandage has been removed. And what a relief. (No Bandage). While waiting in the exam room, there was a small…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • I do (not know)

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    I have mixed feelings about marriage. I was married once. That lasted ten years and each year we celebrated it, we were both amazed we stuck with it. Until we didn’t No gruesome details, please. Oh, nothing horrible. Just that it lost the fun and pleasure we started out with. AS usual, there are two…

  • Daily work out

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    No big deal. But necessary. I’ve adjusted it with regard to physical handicaps, which come and go. Some stay. Still, gets the circulation running and muscles renewed. My neighbor’s dog,Sheena, was at my door yesterday. There was a light knock. I was doing the workout. By the time I opened the door, Sheena was sitting…