Mom’s book, let’s continue

*Houston /*
*I am on a mission /*
*Not the mission into Space*
/
*I am on a harder mission /*
*Longer mission — into Earth*
*Houston /*
*When I see this Earth /*
*I want fireworks and diamonds /*
*But instead it’s a wake*
*of ships falling,*
*Houston /*
*We are all in this /*
*We have dreams of Outer Space /*
*But this mission is the toughest /*
*Our mission /*
*Into Earth*

I became more of a thinker and a capturer of reality — still poetic reality, still with beautiful things. Even taking my dog for a walk was poetry.

*Fern and roses /*
*Nice lady gives me three avocados /*
*through the fence /*
*One ripe, two are not /*
*she says /*
*Now Christmas lights /*
*everywhere /*
*Ornaments on trees*

*Pretend - snow /*
*covering a ceramic /*
*little house*

*In the window /*
*plastic icicles, mirror, /*
*my Mom*
*calls from San Fran / -*
*it’s freezing cold /*
*down here she says*

*Not here — I say /*
*not in L.A.*

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I press a button in the shape of a triangle, pointing to the right. And she’s here. She’s talking to me.

Painter doesn’t have to use a brain. Painter is someone who uses, like, intuition. A painter can paint a disaster and find a logic in the disaster, which is not what the brain would be telling you. And so, is a writer a thinker? I think a writer is… a thinker who is using mostly observation. Is that interesting? I think it is. …

And a painter is more thinking with instinct?

Like intuition. A thinker is using logic. A painter is using intuition. And a writer is using observation. They’re all thinkers, using different tools.

So you think there is less intuition in a writer and more in a painter?

No no, it could be all of it. It could be a little bit of everything.

Do you think your intuitions were mostly right? Or were they wrong? If a painter is a thinker with intuition.

I think it’s a very… abstract terms. It’s very non-defined, completely. Not black and white, that’s why it’s difficult to explain. Very often I had no intuition. I’m struggling for logic. And I’m struggling for intuition. Your intuition is huge. My intuition was – I mean right now my intuition is much better, with years. With time. My intuition gets better. Your intuition was from day one great and I don’t know how you do it. … So, what else is there? For example, a dancer. A dancer is not a thinker —

I think a dancer is an athlete sprinkled with art.

— Mm-hmm! I think a dancer is a great mimic of things. Of living things. Like when a dancer is dancing you see birds, you see animals. To me, you see animals. I think a dancer is, is… I think a dancer is actually celebrating creation. A musician is celebrating logic, because a musician has to have – there is so much math in music, more than in any other area of art. …

Babcia always says she thinks music is the greatest art, the top.

Yes, because I think it just — we have a right and left brain, and with music, music is a perfect balance of right and left brain. You have to be very precise. Mathematically precise and incredibly intuitive.

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