August 2013

On January 22, 1963, I quit my job at May Company, withdrew my money from the bank, and put my thumb out. I was seventeen years, four months, fourteen days old. I am on my own. Seven days later I am getting out of a car driven by an original hippie couple who had love…

The greatest artist to come out of Nebraska – by far – is Gutzon Borglum, who created Mount Rushmore. Gutzon and his family lived in Omaha and Fremont City. When they moved to Los Angeles, my kindred, Jessie Benton-Fremont, became his patron. She sent Gutzon to famous art schools in Europe. Gutzon did a bust…

My grandfather, Royal Rosamond, was encouraged to take up writing by Jack and Fanny Cory, tow creative siblings not unlike I and my sister, the world famous artist known as Rosamond. The Channel Islands remind me of the Isle of Wight where the poets Tennyson and Swineburne lived. It was Royal’s dream to found a…

“One of Swinburne’s earliest works about love is Rosamond, a drama in the Elizabethan style, but one that employs a medieval setting and real historical figures as characters. Published in 1860, this play is extra-ordinarily significant for the poet’s future themes and artistic development. Algernon Charles Swinburne was born in 1837 to a rather illustrious…

“Her earliest childhood memory involved lying on the living room rug as a three year old, pencil in hand, drawing fanciful pic­tures, while her admiring family walked around or over her. Always her artwork was encouraged by her idol Jack, who also loved to draw.” On June 15, 1907 an illustration by my kindred, Philip…

Jessie Benton says her father approved of the Lyman Family. I am the Keeper of the Benton History, also. When Rena took me into the museum, she was transformed into Mnemosyne. She showed me the secret of art and memories of past lives. I am a master genealogist. I have been with the boatman on…

“That’s what happened when Jackie Englehart and Rena Easton saw the lack of opportunity for trained and talented older dancers in the Bozeman area.” Rena Easton dances in Bozeman Montana that looks a lot like Winnemucca. It looks like I am being hard on my muse, but, she is being hard on me. She wants…

“Rosamond recalls that Jack Cory and his sister Fanny Y. Cory, cartoonist, started him on his writing career.” In looking for traces of my Muse, Rena Easton, in Montana, I found what can be described as the Rosamond Holy Grail in Helena Montana. My grandfather lived in Helena and says he was inspired to write…

Just as Warhol had his muses, Darian Halprin might have considered herself Mel Lyman’s muse. Jon http://www.dariahalprin.org/pages/gallery.html Anna Halprin (born Anna Schuman on 13 July 1920) helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance.[1] Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown,…

“Meanwhile Daria (Daria Halprin), “a sweet, pot-smoking post-teenybopper of decent inclinations,” is driving across the desert towards Phoenix in a 1950s era Buick automobile to meet her boss Lee, who may or may not also be her lover.” When ‘Easy Rider’ came out, my kindred and friends said I look just like THE ACTOR, Dennis…