You
know how people are always seeing the Virgin in a tortilla or Elvis in a
piece of French toast? Well...the Goddess appeared to me in a tomato
last Saturday at the downtown Berkeley farmers’ market. Luckily, I ran
into my friend Carole, who had her phone with her, and the herb seller
loaned us her table for an open-shade photo site with less glare (we’ve
been having un-seasonal bright sunny days lately). And by the way, the
tomato is an Early Girl.
OK, to be a real tabloid, I’ll have to say something about Michael Jackson. I’ll let Malvina say it:
“...you
can’t be a solid person when everybody thinks that everything that
comes out of your mouth is gold. It warps you. If you get too far above
people, your feet are off the ground and you lose your roots and the
source of your inspiration and you’re stuck up there! In a way, super
stars can’t help it, because they’re cut off from the people by the
businessmen who surround them, who want to touch them to get the gold to
come off. Not that I was ever in danger of that!” (From an interview
published in Second Stories: Conversations with Women Whose Artistic Careers Began After Thirty-Five, by Gloria Frym, Chronicle Books, ©1979.)
© 2009 by Nancy Schimmel
Friday, July 10, 2009
TABLOID FOR A DAY
