Make Beer, Not War
New Year’s Day with the Edingers. Larry’s new digs; a walk in his neighborhood (Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve). Chapman University. Lunch with Ben at USC. Japanese American National Museum.
Make the Universe Right
Linda Lack year-end celebration: workshop and Ethiopan lunch. Garden with two identified cacti: Pine cone cactus, Tephrocactus articulatus v. diadematus, and Paper spine cactus, Tephrocactus articulatus var. Papyracanthus. Sammy and Marie in their balcony garden. PST exhibitions at USC Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California African American Museum, Fowler Musem of Cultural History, Craft and Folk Art Museum and LACMA.
Amorous Anxiety
FOUND IN TRANSLATION, MSF exhibition at Santa Monica Pier. TALKING TO ACTION at Otis College of Art and Design. Garden with birds and bees, cacti, cat, etc. Valeska Soares, ANY MOMENT NOW, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. PORTRAIT OF MEXICO TODAY, 1932, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Visit with Xochitl in Pacific Grove. History, culture and environment: Display at Camp Roberts Rest Stop.
My Name Is Europe
Sunday morning in Long Beach: Bluff Park. Long Beach Museum of Art, featuring Cuban artist Rafael Soriano. Pacific Standard Time at Museum of Latin American Art: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Garden with birds, mammals, a bee, night-blooming cereus, epiphyllum and other blooms. Lunch with Sammy and Marie, Sara and Graeme. Dinner with the Cliffs. Jackie and Mack Robinson memorial in Pasadena. Lunch with Larry and Robb. WordPress Meetup.
Step on the Art
Stroll through LACMA. Dinner with Cliffs, Junior and Senior. Garden with birds, mammals, starry white epiphyllum (Epiphyllum Strictum) and night-blooming cereus. South Bay WordPress Meetup. Lunch with Sammy and Marie and Sara and Graeme.