catch up

faith at dick and daisy's

feet after the hot tub

busy. finished my video for the opera tuesday morning about an hour before hopping amtrak to new york. on the train i read an excellent book about what makes us love buildings. it's called the old way of seeing by jonathan hale. i'll hopefully write about it when i get the time. tuesday evening tech rehearsal at new york university went well. hung out with faith, a friend of dick's, who is in new york for the naraya, a shoshone-bannock dance ritual. next day, met up with friends john and charles who were test screening their film at the quad cinema for a run early next year. it looked gerat. picked up the timeless way of building by christopher alexander, another excellent book, that echoed much of jonathan hale's book. visited friend wendy, who showed me all the risque cheese descriptions she's foisted on the general public (who seem to adore them) at the cheese shop where she works and told me how much she misses vermont and wants her house in brattleboro back. later, the opera played well to an audience of about fifty.

friday, daisy, cypress and i drove up to vermont for the radical faerie semi-annual meeting where we discussed the next year's work on faerie camp destiny. last night we trekked to a private faerie land, jay and dan's house, for a hot tub under the stars, er, clouds. i hung out with my friend john for bit who then also came hot tubbing. we drove back into burlington, met up with michel, another faerie who couldn't make hot-tubbing, who cooked us some delicious asian-ish veggies at midnight.

this morning we did a little more business. i left at noon to visit friends roger and danny in plainfield. they cooked up a delicious lunch, and we caught up. they played me a new madonna song and gave me a book called star girl. i'm going to read it tuesday on the plane to los angeles. danny shaved his beard, looks great. i love swift change. spoke to my friend marco in los angeles. i'll be staying with him for a couple days then driving to santa barbara for christmas. victory, my refugee friend from new orleans, who has been living at the mill for the past few weeks, left for new york today, and perhaps for italy, if things work out for him. that's the news.