Tag Archives: Obama

OBAMARAMA

By sophie | May 13th, 2009
This just arrived for me from my lovely Mama, an editorial I wrote at the start of the year after landing in Perth, about the intense Obamamania flower-bomb that hit New York City on November 4, 2008. Enjoy! It was an incredible experience and I can’t wait to feel the vibes now after so many months [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash | Also tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

QUOTES OF THE DAY

By sophie | January 25th, 2009
“I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?” – William Stafford (American poet William Stafford is best known for his first book of poems, Traveling Through the Dark, published when he was 48. Stafford was born in 1914 in Kansas and spent most of [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

QUOTE OF THE DAY

By sophie | January 15th, 2009
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” Carlos Castaneda, 1925-1998. (a Peruvian-born American author, who wrote a series of books describing his knowledge of traditional Mesoamerican shamanism.) Regarding the crash in the icicle-cold Hudson river NYC, I just read on The New York Times, Mr. Scott [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (BREAKING NEWS)

By sophie | November 12th, 2008
I flew from New York City to Los Angeles in a jet listening for Henry Miller’s music of the spheres coming in from the cosmos. I found myself out of the window, out of myself, over the wide great skin of America’s Belly Middle. Not out of the ether, but out of my mind – [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash | Also tagged , , , | 4 Comments

HAUNTED BY AMERICAN DREAMS

By sophie | November 7th, 2008
And so we arrive at the gates of these days held aloft by want and wanton life, slacked by waves on this broadening shore. And so we arrive at these gates. And I am about to depart from their meadows. This meadow of rotten apples that I have so lovingly poured over. The rain started today. I am taking on the [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments