A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
- Proverbs 10:1
"August" means "respected" and "impressive." Around Malibu, August means surf and sun, beach parties and barbecues, no school and as August fades into September, late summer morphs into Indian…
Stories
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The Nights in Carol’s Kitchen
Working with Arlene the friend (AtF), CtM set up four French bistros in LA. The concept was ‘great food/decor in a sterile office building.’ Their replacement of the ‘sawdust sandwich’ cafeteria was a hit and CtM found a job for TtS doing kitchen prep – chopping…
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Prelude to Amuse-meant
CHARACTER GALLERY
The Hero’s Journey, an archetypal human story, finds an ordinary person, gives (in this case him) a task he is not equal to and forces him to undertake it. In the course of his journey, the task becomes more difficult and the man loses every advantage and…
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South Bay Saturday (for CtM)
Bodies in Motion
Bike path peddlers
Power walkers Volleyball spikers
Strollers in sandals
Babies in strollers
Skateboarding sidewalk surfers Motorized mini-scooters
Leg-pumping swing-set riders Swarms of strand shufflers
Leggy babes dancing with in-line skates
Surf…
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Lost Parents – Lawrence Ferlinghetti (excerpt)
...including his wife
who also called twice
wanting to know where he’s been
and what he’s done
with their throw-away children who
left to their own devices
in a beach house in Malibu
grew up and dropped out into Nothing
in a Jungian search
for lost…
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BOOM BOOM BOOM – In the recombinant Jewish subculture of Southern California, our families changed partners several times. I know; I have all the pictures. Dorothy, the stepmother (DtSM) first introduced CtM to BtF. She was a bridesmaid at their wedding where, it is said that actress Jeannette…
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Reverie
Years gone by and Wiley thinks often about his Mexican family and the hands across the border that brought their lives forward. He remembers the names of the barrio students who touched his life – Maria Gonzalez, Art Flores, Lily Butler, Felix Santillan, Otelia Campos, Miguel Aceves…
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Outside of the schoolroom, Wiley tracked down Luis Santillo, Grego's dad and visited this drunk, impoverished and aged man, living in a flophouse apartment. When he gave him a letter from Grego, he provided a lifeline between blood kin, separated by borders, lost in time and broken dreams. Luis…
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On an invitation from Belinda, Wiley joined a session of the Psychosinthesis experience2 – a 24-hour psychedelic therapy session. He was the only gringo in a room of thirty tripping participants, where crude, multi-media depicted scenes of violence, sex, death and pornography were shown,…
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Fortunately, this psychodrama came to a merciful close. The love triangle between Grego and his amores (Belinda and Angelina) had been going on for years. This was just another episode of a Mexican soap opera, here in the neighborhood of Cerrada de Torreon. The evening melee was just a rite…