“No here – here!”

This morning I discovered that Gertrude Stein lived on 13th. Avenue in Oakland, two blocks from my great grandparents. It was here that Gertrude coined the phrase

“There is no there there”

When I was with Rena in Nebraska I ran past her the idea that I would move to Lincoln and set up a studio.

“You won’t like it here. There’s nothing here.” spoke my Muse.
“You’re here!” I replied, and listened to the prairie wind blow around the lonely tumble weeds of my mind.

I am going to do a painting of my Muse and I sitting on the steps of ‘Elephant Hall’ the museum on the grounds of the University of Nebraska, for this is the scene I came back here for. This was a great moment in the history of a Artist and his/her – Muse!

Gertrude Stein said she always knew she would be a…