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I don’t think I was bipolar before I came to live in this climate. And I am sure my bi-polar has to do with missing being in the sun. And I never knew I was bi-polar until a therapist told me that I was. Now what the hell does this mean for my body, my mind, my relationships and my work. And what is the relationship to mania. I can tell if I am being manic just like I can tell when my bipolar symptoms are showing. All this after years of pure hell. Was James Baldwin, manic,

They came to build China’s EV future. Investigators found conditions akin to “slavery.” Exploiting Africa - How China and Europe hunt for the raw materials of the future | DW Documentary China, Nigeria Face Off Over Miners “Abducted” in the Central African Republic Why is China abusing nations across the globe to steal their natural resources and abuse their people in doing so? Isn’t it bad enough that the US is doing the same thing, and that England has a permanent history

3/5/2026 Around the age of 5-7, I began to think of the world outside of myself and my place in it. I was also reading about everything that was happening in the world from newspapers and magazines my father brought home. I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be Joan of Arc. I wanted to be the Dalai Lama. I wanted to be with Mahatma Gandhi. My father was a well-known sportsman and he won trophies at every match. His name was in the newspapers and on the radio. The men he hung

2/27/2026 - There are days when the madness takes over and nothing can bring back the certainty of place that you need to feel, that you need to have to continue through the day. You go to your space, your cabinet of mysteries and realize it has been days since you have taken the one that makes you smaller, the one that keeps your brain in place. So you immediately swallow all. How could you have forgotten. But yesterday and the day before, all seemed to be going well, now y

2/18/2026 When I looked at Kiefer’s list of exhibitions, reviews, and criticisms, it was endless. I don’t recall another artist having such visibility, and I wondered why and how, even though I knew the answer. Kiefer gave the white/Western world, the world of those in power, the world of the past conquerors of the planet, a thorough look at themselves, especially as they have appeared in the last 80 or more years — at least the last century. Without obviously taking sid

2/11/2026 Recently I have been drawn back to the works of German artist Anselm Kiefer. The first time I saw Anselm Kiefer’s work his soul came out of the painting and wrapped itself around my heart like an enormous hand - it did not squeeze - it spoke only of terror and the desire to soothe itself. It spoke only of a future it saw but could not make the world see it too because the world was moving in an/the illusion of dis-reality. His work tears my heart, rips it, and s

2/2/26 The dance inside me moves my body when it does not move, moves my mind when it does not move, moves my senses when they do not move, moves the air around me, …..lying on the air, as it floats, as it is breathed, as it is kissed, as it is "the dance". If I could be the air I’d be the air, if I could be the wind I’d be the wind, if I could lie on my soul and travel thru the energy that is and just be, if I could, if only I could. The beat of the drum and the beat of my h