In Twilight Regalia

A List of Coolest Things I’ve Seen In My Life, in no particular order.

1. A milkweed pod
2. The crown on the Good Witch of the North
3. Elaine coming down the stairs covered in bridal shower ribbons
4. Mikey jumping over a mailbox in a tux jacket and taped shoes
5. My horse and mule onstage at the beginning of La Mancha
6. Orlando when it first came out
7. Dave the bartender in 197?.
8. Mie Preckler’s exhibits
9. S. all dressed up when I first met him, and a beautiful mauseleum
10. That photograph of the girl with the red beads
11. The nutcracker when I was 10, with my sister all happy beside me
12. The Imperial costumes in The Last Emperor
13. An ice storm
14. Seeing the northern lights with Maribeth from a car-hood
15. The view from the tram in Hong Kong up the mountain
16. Chushingura Kabuki performance in Chicago when I was 10
17. Sabu in The Jungle Book
18. Rebecca Horn’s machinery
19. Palmprints made of Elmer’s glue
20. Steve A. asleep with spring wind shadows of branches dancing on him
21. Nathe in the window in the rain in 1973
22. Chinatown in SF at night at new year’s in the rain
23. Eating outside in Hong Kong the first night we got there
24. The smell of my ice skates when I was 9
25. The little fairy grove of trees on the way to the pond
26. Finishing my windchimes and dancing to Milton Nascimento’s Cravo e Canela
27. Dancing to Mosaic on the quad in U of I
28. Having candy and tea prepared and set in front of us in Kyoto at their showroom
29. Mel’s laugh
30. A sunset, and the roses by my little house in Oakland

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