Dear friend,
A quick moment with you today.
I will be the mama cat in a week (in addition to being a hotelier for three live-in cats). Sons, daughters-in-law, grand girls, grand boys, grandpa.
Blow-up beds, straggly breakfasts, running, cooking, Wollman rink, lights, games, mess. I look forward to feeling that blow of love expanding in my chest.
Dear friend on the other side of this conversation,
Thank you for being here, again and again.
You keep me coming back to you.
Feliz día de Chanukah Feliz Navidad Feliz Año Nuevo
I've been continuing my poetry studies. Indebted to teachers brilliant at their own craft and also outstanding communicators: Poets Elaine Sexton, Silvina López Medín, Ellen Bass.
A new Soy/Somos is coming in January!
I'll be interviewing a Korean American woman—beloved teacher, mentor to many, and author of two novels, one forthcoming in 2023. The thesis of these conversations is that we live in a multicultural nation and world—that being open to difference deepens our perspectives on living.
What he said to me this week:
"If you got a robot to do the work I do, you'd have to get new batteries...."
"I told my parents you were Cuban. They loved Cuba."*
This is what I live with daily. The man is from Brooklyn. Can you tell?
*You know I’m from Panama, no?