IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS

  Would you like it gift-wrapped, sir?....      No, it's for me.... I was wondering 'if'....technically.....Daniel Day Lewis's wife, Rebecca Miller, would be considered to be the stepdaughter of Marilyn Monroe!   While I was watching the previews of Miller's documentary Film about Martin Scorsese, it occurred to me that Ingrid Bergman was Scorcese's  ex-mother-in-law!   Oh, here's a copy of "Six Degrees of Separation", under my bed......I'm in the mood to watch it, perhaps....After Java, I should ask Alice Rohrwacher what her first 'take' on "Call Me By Your Name" was.... or Mo Yan, what his take on Magical Realism is, while I finish off this cut of red sorghum on a slice of 12-grain toast with the imagined materialized  Gabriel Garcia Marques and Jorge Luis Borges, seated at opposite ends of  a long table of Cinema-Diners, gorging on Magical Realism & Die Neue Sachlichkeit, through the long lens Camera of negotiable sub...

I HAD KNOWN DAVID'S FATHER, RICHARD RAMUS, FROM HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AN AUCTION COMPANY, ACROSS PEACHTREE ROAD, FROM A STREET OF ANTIQUES DEALERS SHOPS AND ART/FURNITURE RESTORATIONERS......  DAVID HAD BEEN 'COURTING' ONE OF MY CLIENT'S DAUGHTERS, WITH THE EXPECTATION OF GETTING INTO HER PARENTS DEEP POCKETS........HE OPENED AN ART GALLERY IN THE BUCKHEAD PLAZA OFFICE TOWER, NEAR THE HOMES OF HIS PARENTS RICH FRIENDS AND THEIR RICH FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTENANCES; BUT, AFTER SCAMMING A FEW FOR SOME BIG BUCKS, HE WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR 'I NTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN ART'. ...EVEN WHILE IN PRISON, DAVID COURTED A RICH, OLDER WOMAN AND CONNED HER OUT OF A WAD OF CASH.....AFTER HAVING ALREADY SWINDLED HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND, REED GALIN,  AND DEFRAUDING HIS UNSUSPECTING CLIENTS OUT OF OVER A HALF MILLION BUCKS.......YET, HE GETS THE 'GET OUT OF JAIL....PRACTICALLY FREE....CARD.....AND BECOMES A SUCCESSFULL WRITER WITH 'A THIEF OF LIGHT' AND 'GRAVITY...

A few years ago, I discovered that Peter Reichard.... partner in Tryon Venture Capital, LLC.(!) is the biological son of one of the 'influencers' of my Youth, Ram Das, author of BE HERE NOW...... So much for 'Genetics' being a primary influential determinant of Mindfulness........Back to reflections on 'Nature/Nurture'...... If Einstein had abandoned a child by Marilyn Monroe, would it have 'turned out' to be a performance artist that couldn't add up prime numbers, under ten, and have had a toothless smile?

"Project #793.....or #25 for today" .......These were the last words that my step-father wrote in his 'diary of engineering activities' ...as I fill in the 'blanks' for my semi-biographical rambles, incorporating them into a 'book outline'........there was a 'blank' period, when...living in an Airstream Trailer, in Warner Robbins, Georgia, that I was not as 'connected' to my past Life, or to my family.....It was before mobile phones and computer e-mailing....I didn't even have a phone...at all.....Isolated....So, I've been reconstructing bits and pieces...from the stacks of paper and photos that I've been lugging around for decades......This scan is of the last entry in Tom's 'diary'.....wherein, trapped in Valentine, Nebraska, away from all of his friends and family, he made detailed entries of mundane things.....always, the date, temperature and weather conditions and 'what was happening' during the con...