Saturday, January 31, 2026

Falsa Alarma

Voy a poner esto a dormir
adormecerlo en pleno sueño.


Porque quizás no sea nada,
todas las respuestas son de la misma voz,
colores que se mezclan hasta borrarse,
sin nombre.

Tal vez no veo con claridad,
Tal vez soy solo yo,

Tal vez todo esto
no es más que una falsa alarma.


El Calcetín

​Anoche he soñado que besaba los pies de un bebé. Luego que desparramaba sopa encima de los calcetines del baby. 

Esta mañana, al abrir la cortina de mi ventana, he visto en la acera de abajo un Corazón. Algo como que si alguien me lo hubiera puesto a mi allí, precisamente para que yo lo viera. 

Pero después de mirar por un rato, me quedé sorprendida, al darme cuenta, que ese corazón, no era más que el calcetín de un bebé. 

De alguna manera terminó allí aplastado en la acera, al pie de mi ventana. Después de haber sido pisoteado quedó como forma de corazón. 

Corrí hacia abajo a tomar foto. Abrí la puerta y me encontré con la cara de la bebé de mis vecinos Leve. Al mirarme ella me regaló una sonrisa, ya me reconoce, ya no es seria como antes. 

Le saludé y sonreímos juntas. Luego corrí a tomar la foto al calcetín. 

Ahora en Fort Mason, estoy comprando un latte, y estoy observando el arte en las paredes, cuando en eso escuché la voz de un niño de 2 años, cantando: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star… 




La Era Glacial

​Es interesante abrir las páginas de las plataformas sociales, y encontrarse con publicaciones sobre le “hielo”. 

El hielo que está amenazando a los inmigrantes y el hielo que está azotando con unas zonas de los Estados Unidos. 

El hielo está causando muchos daños, moral y físicamente, a toda la nación. 

El hielo, que llega de forma natural, el que cae del cielo, sería el hielo que viene de Dios. 

El hielo, que se formó en la tierra, por un simio en poder, sería el hielo del Diablo. 

Muchos artistas, han reaccionado con algún arte visual, en donde simbólicamente destruyen los dos tipos de Hielo, el de Dios y el del Diablo. 

Metafóricamente hablando, Estados Unidos está atravesando por una era glacial, No es algo nuevo, solo ha alcanzado una cúspide, pero esto ya se venía formando desde mucho antes. 

Si vemos lo que está ocurriendo como un sueño del subconsciente de Estados Unidos, con la amenaza del hielo en todas partes, lo interpretaríamos así: La gente no está protestando contra un enemigo externo, sino contra aquello en lo que ellos mismos se han transformado. El otro hielo, el que es invisible para la sociedad, aquel en el que muchos, la mayoría, quedaron congelados. El hielo de un sistema frío e inhumano, basado en capitalismo, que les apagó el calor humano y la empatía. 



Sueños

Estoy en la cama. Hay más gente en el cuarto. Hay un bebé a la par mía. El cuarto está oscuro. Estamos viendo televisión.

El bebé juega con sus pies y cada vez que los levanta, yo le tomo un piecito y se lo beso.

Entonces alguien dice que la sopa ya está lista.
Yo, corro a la cocina. No es mi cocina ni mi casa; no sé dónde estoy.
Levanto el sopero: es una sopa llena de verduras, sobre todo yuca.
Lo levanto para servir. Alguien toma un plato. Luego me piden más.
En ese momento el sopero se me resbala y se cae, pero no del todo al suelo.

Pienso que no pasa nada, que solo se desparramó un poco.
Pero cuando levanto la olla veo que casi todas las verduras están en el piso.
Me siento mal. Sin decirle nada a nadie empiezo a recogerlas una por una, la mayoría es yuca, y las vuelvo a poner dentro del sopero.

Mientras recojo las verduras noto que por todo el suelo están regados los calcetines del bebé, empapados en sopa.
Los recojo y los llevo a otro cuarto.
Los tiro en un clóset para lavarlos después.

Pienso que, si las verduras cayeron sobre los calcetines de un bebé, no es tan grave como si hubieran caído directamente al suelo.

Luego, en la misma casa, hay una especie de galería de arte. Estoy pintando, o mirando pinturas.
Un señor me pregunta cómo va mi pintura. Dice que la escondí.
Le digo que no la escondí, que soy novata con los óleos.
Él cree que lo digo para presumir.

La pintura que tengo en la mano la observa con atención;
dice que está muy bien hecha.
Trato de explicarle que apenas estoy aprendiendo,
que cada vez que pinto me sale distinta la técnica.
Pienso en ir a buscar el autorretrato que hice para explicarme mejor, pero me siento más bien ofendida:
el piensa que le miento, como si él creyera que digo que soy novata solo para que la gente me admire.

Notas

- Los pies de un bebé que yo beso, ósea me los llevo a la boca, los beso porque son limpios, puros y tiernos 

- La sopa se desparramó sobre los calcetines del bebé. Nuevamente, los pies, pienso que no hay impureza, y por eso asumo que la verdura no se ensucia y está bien ponerla en la boca 

- Lo que dice el señor, obviamente aquí está soy yo hablando conmigo misma, proyectando en otra persona. La pintura que tengo sin terminar, la técnica me ha salido diferente a las otras pinturas que ya terminé. En mi cabeza esto es un error, pero es una tontería. En que me baso para pensar eso? Acaso hay una forma o manera de pintar? 

Seguí pintando. Al final todos expertos e inexpertos estamos practicando siempre. 

Luna Mía, Luna Blanca

​Luna Mía, Luna Blanca 

Luna de mis sueños negros

Luna para el que se sonríe 

y para el que llora sin consuelo 


Luna Mía, Luna Blanca 

Luna de los hechiceros 

Luna para las conjuras 

de poetas y embusteros 


Luna Mía, Luna Blanca 

de las noches de misterio 

Luna para el que se enamora 

y te confiesa sus secretos 


Luna que te quiero Luna 

Luna te quiero mirar, 

ven a mi ventana, Luna

pa’ poderte contemplar 


Luna que te quiero Luna 

Luna te quiero mirar 

si cierro los ojos, Luna 

contigo quiero soñar 





Revolutionary Road

Watched Revolutionary Road again, great movie. I should read the book. It basically highlights that the worst thing you can do to love is turn it into a couple: turn your lover into a domesticated partner, and everything goes to hell. 

Every couple in that movie is unhappy, exhausted by each other. The only free person is the one they all call crazy. And in the end, April sets herself, and her unborn child free. 

That’s probably the reality for most couples, going to bed wishing they were with someone else, or just alone. I should reread Oscar Wilde’s thoughts on this, he writes it so much better than I do.

Friday, January 30, 2026

Sueños

​Estoy con un grupo de gente, en una habitación. En el suelo hay un hueco enorme en el que se mira el espacio, negro, con nebulosas y galaxias. 

En el espacio están flotando aplicaciones, como si fuera una computadora. 

Hay una mujer, una chica, que está tratando de comunicarse con nosotros. 

Nos movemos alrededor del hueco para escuchar. Pero de pronto la gente se distrae con otra cosa y ya no ponen atención. Yo trato de que regresen a poner atención. 

Luego, salimos de ese cuarto, y vamos hacia afuera. Afuera, hay otro cuarto y gente haciendo línea, para firmar o registrarse no lo sé. Es casi mi turno de pasar, cuando eso reconozco a las personas que nos están registrando. Son una pareja, me dicen hola bien entusiasmados, y yo llego y nos damos un abrazo los 3, como si fuéramos amigos que no nos hemos visto en mucho tiempo. 

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Sueños

​Estoy en la oficina, parece MOC- nos estan moviendo para otro lugar. Paul está allí conmigo, y por alguna razón nos damos un abrazo súper largo, casi sexual. 

Nos sorprende que la compañía que contrataron para la movida, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, ya se había llevado todas las computadoras y nosotros ni cuenta nos dimos. 

Vamos para afuera, yo voy con otras dos compañeras de trabajo. Afuera hay como un pasto crecido, y una valla que ellas saltan sin ningún problema. Pero yo me doy cuenta que es demasiado alta para mi, así que tengo que irme a un lado. 

Estamos las compañeras y yo caminando, hablando de cómo vamos a extrañar ese lugar. Yo pienso que la verdad era muy bonito. Y les digo que yo voy a encontrar una manera de regresar. Pienso en tomar fotos. 

Luego estoy en un restaurante un poco caro, con 3 chicas. Una de ellas es Heather. Al parecer, una de mis compañeras conoce a Heather de otro lado. 

Estamos comiendo, y platicando. Aunque yo solo las observo. Ellas hablan de restaurantes y comidas. Una de ellas menciona que fue a comer al restaurante de Heather, y que se comió una galleta, y que estaba tan deliciosa que pronunció una frase en francés. Le sugirió a Heather que le cambiara el nombre del restaurante a esa frase. 

Luego, salimos porque teníamos una reunión, afuera en el patio. Nos sentamos en unas sillas, que estaban arregladas en círculo. De repente me cae una llamada de Heather. Casi no la puedo escucharla. Medio alcanzó a entender que me está contando sus planes con Rick. Menciona algo de que los han invitado an Utah. 

Me sorprendió que Heather me estuviera hablando como si fuese mi amiga, porque nunca lo fue. 

La reunión va a comenzar. Yo de repente decidí improvisar una danza. De repente ya no estamos sentados en círculo, sino que todo está arreglado en forma de teatro al aire libre. 

Yo estoy parada frente a la audiencia a punto de comenzar mi danza. Me siento súper inspirada, En eso, llega gente nueva y hay que acomodarla, luego un chico interrumpe con algo de ruido. 

Un señor, de unos 70 años dice: Y ella a su edad se va a poner a bailar? 

Yo me doy la vuelta indignada y me acerco a Él. Lo miró a los ojos y le digo:  A cual edad uno para de bailar? El no sabe que decir, y se incomoda un poco. 

Regreso a posicionarme lista para bailar, pero la inspiración se me ha ido, y tengo que volver a recogerla. 


Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Sueños

​No recuerdo mucho. Estoy hablando con alguien sobre el lenguaje que usa un aparato para comunicarse. La otra persona y yo tenemos dos distintas interpretaciones, lo raro es que las dos encajan de alguna manera, y eso es lo que nos sorprende. Y ya. No hay más memoria. 

Me dormí escuchando la meditación, pero me desperté varias veces, con dolores musculares. Ayer no hice yoga ni ejercicio, y mi cuerpo ya me lo está pidiendo. 

Esta noche, inmediatamente después del trabajo, al gym, y luego a mi estudio en Delano, donde pasaré la noche trabajando en mis collages. 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

R.I.P. Alex

El ruido que la gente hace en las plataformas sociales no nace de la empatía, sino del deseo de verse a sí mismos como “los buenos”, de una auto-gratificación moral.  Me hartaron los altamente moralistas (Facebook warriors) que se proclaman los buenos y que, muchas veces, resultan ser los más snobs y clasistas de todos. En un post se quejan de las guerras en otros países o de la situación de los inmigrantes; en el siguiente presumen sus vacaciones anuales en Europa o sus comidas en restaurantes carísimos. 

Sin embargo, sí he tenido la dicha de conocer personas reales. No muchas, pero sí las hay. Gente buena, honesta, que no anda gritándolo a los cuatro vientos en las redes sociales.  

Nunca conocí a Alex Jeffrey Pretti, pero no me queda duda que si era un héroe. Esta tarde, al tomarme un descanso, me encontré con este póster. 

Descubrí que fue baleado al oponerse a un agente de la Border Patrol, cuando confundieron un celular con una pistola. No lo conocí, pero quería hacerle este post porque los héroes hay que reconocerlos como tales.


Sueños

​Me dormí con dolor de cabeza. Puse la meditación de sueño lúcido. 

Primer Sueño: 

Estoy con muchísima gente en el cuarto de un edificio. Es un salón enorme. Todos estamos “esperando” por algo. 

Recuerdo en algún momento nos fuimos hacia las escaleras. Pero la mayoría de veces estuvimos en ese cuarto. Luego en un auto, como un mini-bus. 

En algún momento me salí del cuarto, y cuando regresé encontré mi cartera colgada en un alambre desde el techo. La cogí, y me di cuenta que me habían metido allí frutas. Luego vi que había un baño que no había visto en medio del cuarto. 

Me desperté. Puse la meditación otra vez y este fue el segundo sueño: 

Tuve glimpses de sueño lúcido. Pero me desperté muy rápido. 

Me volví a dormir, ahora estoy en otro lugar también con muchísima gente. Estamos hablando de un libro buenísimo, mind- bending. Un libro súper moderno. Un señor ya muy mayor me llama la atención a algo en el libro. 

Luego estamos sentados como al rededor de una mesa. Va a ver una comida después en otro lugar de la casa. 

En la reunión estamos hablando del libro, y estamos sentados unos juntos a los otros. Al lado mío hay una señora, que señala a un chero del frente, le dice que está demasiado cerca de la otra señora. 

El chero se levanta como apenado, y se va. Yo me siento súper mal, que la señora lo haya avergonzado así. Y lo voy a buscar afuera, pero no lo veo. 

Me quedo con la pregunta si va a regresar al club o no. 

Le quiero preguntar a alguien si creen que sería buena idea ir a buscarlo. Pero ese alguien está ocupado escogiendo un nuevo collar de una bolsa. Esos collares no son nuestros. Y se lo dije. Le digo: Yo te puedo hacer uno de esa. 

Parece no importarle lo que pase o pasó con el chero. 

Me regreso a la reunión un poco triste. 

Monday, January 26, 2026

Moons and Rainbows

Not feeling my best today. Will work from bed, from the room where I am surrounded by moons and rainbows.​ 

I could call in sick, but apparently if you work from home, you are expected to work even when you are sick. I should take the example of my colleagues the “heroes”, they proudly brag about working overtime, working on weekends, working through illness…such warriors! 


Sueños

 Intenté hacer la meditación de lucid dreaming pero me dolía el estómago y eso se metió en mi sueño. Que tenía algo que alguien mas tenía e había ido al hospital por eso.

En algún momento estaba caminando con Tara, ella estaba más chica y me comentaba que le hacía pedido un Ipad a Santa para Navidad. 


Sunday, January 25, 2026

Sueños Lucidos

 No recuerdo mucho de lo que soñé anoche. Solo recuerdo lo siguiente:

Me desperté alrededor de las cinco de la mañana y no quería despertarme del todo; quería dormir un poco más. Entonces se me ocurrió buscar una meditación en YouTube, y encontré una que supuestamente ayuda a tener sueños lúcidos.

La escuché e hice todos los ejercicios de relajación. De pronto, me encontré mirándome a mí misma frente al espejo. Ahí tuve un momento de lucidez: me di cuenta de que la meditación había funcionado y de que ya estaba dentro del sueño.

“Si ya estoy soñando, entonces puedo flotar”, pensé. Y comencé a flotar en medio del cuarto. Después de eso pasé a otro sueño y perdí la lucidez. 

En el otro sueño, me vi entrando a un pasillo y vi a un hombre vestido con un pantalón camuflajeado. Al parecer, nos habíamos encontrado ahí con la intención de tener sexo. Estaba a punto de hacerlo cuando, del otro lado, apareció Kyron y me dijo que me metiera al cuarto. Era como si Kyron me estuviera protegiendo del hombre que parecia soldado. 

Friday, January 23, 2026

"Clement Street"

 What a surprise to meet this lady, again, sitting at the same corner, with the same amount of bags as before. She and her bags are the subject of my current oil painting. When I took the first picture, I thought she was on the move, heading somewhere. But now that I’ve seen her again on the same corner, I find it very strange. I wonder if she is homeless—perhaps sleeping somewhere at night, in a temporary place where she is allowed to sleep but not to stay, which forces her to carry all her belongings with her during the day. My impression is based on what she carries: many personal items—clothes, toilet paper, a broom, paper towels. Two suitcases and a series of small bags.



Today, she looked stressed out and tired. I am not sure if I am projecting, but having seen other situations like this here in San Francisco, I wouldn't be surprised that is the case. 

I am now committed to document this corner. I will continue to go bag. 

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Sueños

Estoy en la cama, acostado junto a mi está, un señor no le veo la cara. Yo estoy desnuda de la cintura abajo. El señor esta completamente vestido, con su abrigo y todo. Por alguna razón, S. está del otro lado del señor,  en la misma cama pero más como abajo. 

Yo estoy como platicando con el señor. Estamos conversando de una manera súper amena. 
En eso me pregunto que hace S. Y levantó la cabeza para verlo. 
Lo veo en la cama jugando con su pene erecto. Lo regaño por ser tan vulgar. El ni caso me hace. 
En eso me doy cuenta que S está probando unos nuevos tipos de condones, que ha comprado, que al ponérselos le dan placer inmediato. Uno de esos condones se infla en forma de globo.

Yo me acuesto y sigo platicando con el señor, a mi lado, el acostado en medio de nosotros dos. 

De pronto el lugar donde estamos es como un hotel. Recuerdo algo de una piscina. 

Es hora de irse, de hacer check out del hotel. 
Ahora veo que hay mucha gente, como una especie de excursión de turistas. 

Veo  al mismo señor que estaba durmiendo conmigo, salir del hotel. Lo veo de espaldas, sigo sin verle la cara. Es un señor alto, cabello canoso. Se reúne a acompañar a su familia que habían llegado con el. 
Pero no los veo bien, se que hay una esposa hay hijos, pero no les veo la cara, solo se que son su familia. 

El señor regresa a preguntarme si nos vamos a juntar  otra vez en la cama, como estábamos antes. Le digo que si. 




Wednesday, January 21, 2026

El Sueño, Don Ricardo, Pedro Paramo y el camino de Flores...

Después de leer el último escrito de Don Ricardo y de tener anoche el sueño con su fantasma, he decidido recorrer este laberinto que va desde mi sueño hasta lo que Don Ricardo relata en su memoria. No hay un comienzo definitivo, ni un final que cierre la historia; solo algo que se abre como grieta en el tiempo, una luz, que ilumina un camino de flores en el caos de la oscuridad.  

El Sueño: 

En sueño, me veía acostada sobre un mat de yoga, estaba precisamente en el mismo lugar de la casa, que alguna vez fue "El Centro de Estudios". Acababa de hacer yoga y de meditar, y estaba a punto de quedarme dormida.

Mi papá llegaba a preguntarme por la lámpara. Yo le señalaba la cama de María. Maria dormia en una cama, enfrente de mi. 

Mi papa, se dirigio hacia allí y comenzo a tantear debajo de la cobija en busca de la lámpara. 

Pensando que estaba haciendo algo inapropiado con Maria, decidi, yo buscar por la lampara. La encontre debajo de su almohada. Se la di a mi papa. 

Mi papa, comenzo a caminar de regreso, hacia "El Centro de Estudios". Yo caminaba detrás de el. 

En ese momento mi papa se detiene y apunta la lámpara hacia un lado del camino, iluminando unas flores silvestres en medio de la selva oscura. 

De pronto, él ya no estaba, y era yo quien sostenía la lámpara. 

Entonces notaba una grieta en la pared del cuarto de atrás de "El Centro De Estudios". Apunte la la luz de la lampara hacia adentro de la grieta  y escuche el gemido de un hombre que ya habia muerto. 

Me daba cuenta de que había despertado a un fantasma.


El Relato de Don Ricardo en relacion al sueño: 

Esta mañana lei la historia que Don Ricardo escribio antes de morir: en ella cuenta de cómo conoció a mi papá, cómo llegó al Centro de Estudios y cómo me conoció a mí. El cuenta cómo fue mi padre quien le iluminó el camino hacia Krishnamurti y  sería allí donde aprendería sobre yoga, meditación y otras prácticas espirituales. En mi sueno, yo acabo de hacer yoga y de meditar, precisamente en El Centro de Estudios.

Luego, la relacion con la lampara, que mi papa usa, para iluminar un camino de Flores. Pues claramente una referencia a  Flores el apellido de Don Ricardo.  

En su relato, Don Ricardo menciona a dos santas: Santa María y Santa Elena. He aqui el extracto: 

"En esos días, yo tenía una serie de preocupaciones. La casa en la Satélite, mis terrenos en Santa María, la casa en Santa Elena,"

En el sueño, María la que duerme, es claramente la Santa María. En la vida real, la Mary, la niña que llegó virgen a nuestra casa y que luego saldría embarazada de mi padre. La relacion simbolica con el catolicismo, el camino espiritual. Maria, la virgen queda embarazada por Dios.

La otra santa es Santa Elena. Esa, entonces, soy yo. Quien es Elena, según la mitología:

Según la mitología católica, Santa Elena es una figura clave del cristianismo primitivo, conocida por su devoción religiosa y por la tradición que la vincula al hallazgo de la Vera Cruz, la cruz en la que fue crucificado Jesús.

En el sueño, yo encuentro la lámpara: la metáfora de encontrar la cruz. Todo lo que sufrí con mi Papa sería mi Vera Cruz.

Luego está la asociación de Elena con la mitología griega. En la mitología griega, Helena de Troya es una de las mujeres más famosas y bellas del mundo antiguo, una figura central en el origen de la Guerra de Troya. Ricardo (hijo), Juan Carlos y mi padre: los tres deseándome, queriendo poseerme, ser mis dueños, mis amos, mis verdugos y mis ángeles. Los 3 se pelearon entre si, por mi. 

Luego, en mi sueño, mi papá aparece caminando hacia el Centro de Estudios, el mismo lugar donde Don Ricardo conoció a mi padre y a mí, de acuerdo a su relato. 

Mi padre ilumina el camino de flores. Le ilumina el camino a Don Ricardo Flores. 

Don Ricardo se volvió escritor y poeta; siguió un camino de flores con su poesía.

En mi sueño, soy yo quien retoma la lámpara, metfora de como retome el arte que mi papá abandonó. Don Ricardo admiraba eso en mí: le inspiraban mis pinturas y mi pasión por el arte, y eso lo inspiró a él, así como alguna vez lo inspiró mi padre.

Esta noche, después de reflexionar sobre todo esto, hablé por teléfono con Juan 

Me contó que anoche el vio la película de Pedro Páramo en Netflix. Lo que encaja pefectmente con mi sueño. En la novela de Pedro Paramo, los muertos son fantasmas que habitan como vivos en los pueblos viejos y quebrados de las selvas latinoamericanas. En la oscuridad del subconsciente, donde la memoria se va deteriorando, insistiendo en mantener la imagen de una narrativa que va despareciendo.

Es interesante que hayamos tenido un encuentro de fantasmas en el subconsciente: Don Ricardo, Juan Carlos y yo. 

Me hace pensar que las paredes que separan a los vivos de los muertos, lo artístico de lo ordinario, se volvieron frágiles a causa de tantos bombardeos y terremotos en El Salvador. Permitiendo que nos encontremos en estos momentos en que la muerte llega anunciando su presencia, con un gemido, detras de una grieta, del lugar en donde nos conocimos los 3. 

Nos convierte a todos en fantasmas que deambulan en el mundo de los sueños y de la memoria: proyecciones mentales y mecánicas que se reflejan unas en otras, de un subconsciente a otro. Juntos, caminando un camino de flores que se ilumino un dia, en medio de la selva, en medio de la guerra. En medio de tanto dolor, la belleza. En medio de tanta muerte, la vida. 

Don Ricardo…

 Entré a Facebook a buscar los últimos escritos de Don Ricardo. Para mi sorpresa, el último de Enero 9, de este año, fue sobre mi padre y menciona el día en que me conoció a mi: 


MI ACERCAMIENTO AL MAGO FANCI…


Corría el año 1979. Era una tarde de uno de sus meses finales.  Había brisa fresca y el horizonte empezaba a pintar nubes rosadas. Caminaba yo, por la calle Constitución, en la Ciudad Satélite. Pienso que me dirigía a la Pupusería de mi amigo Joaquín Arévalo que estaba en una esquina de la calle. En esos días, yo tenía una serie de preocupaciones. La casa en la Satélite, mis terrenos en Santa María, la casa en Santa Elena, todas esas propiedades estaban embargadas con el Banco Hipotecario, ya sin opciones de recuperación, mis pérdidas en los cultivos de algodón y cereales fueron desastrosas. Eran los principios de la guerra civil y era ya casi imposible visitar el oriente del país donde tenía mis cultivos. Se perdió todo. Pero bien, este es solo un episodio por lo que yo estaba pasando en ese momento. El tema que me ocupa es el siguiente:

Como decía, caminando por la calle Constitución de la Ciudad Satélite, me llamó la atención un rótulo que leí en una casa a un lado de la calle, el rótulo decía: “CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS FILOSÓFICOS E INVESTIGACIONES PSÍQUICAS”- Mago Francis Fanci-. Me llamó curiosamente la atención, pensé: “sería bueno visitarlo y ver de qué se trata”… Llegué a la puerta, toqué, a pesar de que estaba abierta. Una muchacha muy joven y bonita se acercó a recibirme muy amablemente. Era Lety, la esposa del mago Fanci. Me invitó a entrar, muy cordialmente. Fanci estaba con un grupo impartiendo sus enseñanzas filosóficas. Me dirigió una sonrisa y me invitó a sentarme a escuchar… Al terminar la charla, esperé que todos se fueran para poder conversar con el mago a solas, mientras una niña inquieta y extrovertida jugaba al rededor, era Dilcia, la hija de Fanci. Tuve la reunión, muy amena, agradable y distendida con Fanci. Descubrí que era un excelente comunicador, lleno de mucha sabiduría y muy hábil para resolver problemas psicológicos de la gente, lo que fui constatando a lo largo del tiempo que pasé asistiendo a sus charlas de los domingos por mucho tiempo. Tenía una biblioteca muy diversa, sobre todo de libros místicos, filosóficos y espirituales. Otros días de la semana impartía cursos de hipnotismo, meditación, magia y de orientación para superación personal. Era un excelente maestro con una enorme sabiduría y conocimiento. Permanecí por mucho tiempo asistiendo a sus charlas y enseñanzas… las que han sido de mucho apoyo en momentos difíciles de mi vida. Cierto día, en cierto compartimento de su amplia y variada biblioteca encontré un librito titulado “A los pies del maestro” de Jiddu Krishnamurti. Fanci, me lo recomendó, procedí a leerlo y fue el comienzo, y en lo sucesivo, a través del tiempo, mi acercamiento a las enseñanzas de Krishnamurti, ha sido la ruta definitiva del rumbo de mi vida…

una muerte y varios poemas...

 Amaneci todavia sintiendome un poco idiota. Ahora por el efecto de la pastilla. Lo primero que hice fue escribir mis sueños. 

En mi inbox, me encontre con un email de Juan que me mando anoche. Un escrito sobre Don Richard. Fue asi que me entere que el habia muerto. Pense que quizas ese era el fantasma de mi sueño de anoche, el hombre viejo detras de la pared que gimio cuando yo alumbre el cuarto con la lampara. 

Le comparti la noticia a S, esta mañana,  puso zero atencion, envuelto en su ritual de siempre, que es pelear con los otros motoristas. 

Entre al Facebook a ver lo ultimo que habia posteado Don Richard - solia escribir muchos poemas, algunos los lei, despues deje de leer, cuando decidi abandonar esa aplicacion de FB,  que es una basura en general. 

Ya los poemas de don Richard estan enterrados, por debajo de los muchos post de otra gente haciendole homenage y dando su pesame. 

Asi es como uno se entera de todo, por Facebook. Yo no me entero de nada porque evito a toda costa entrar a esa aplicacion. A cada rato recibo miles de notificaciones y las ignoro, las he venido ignorando desde hace años. Los que me conocen, los que realmente me conocen, saben cómo contactarme. Lo demás es pura habladuría, una adulación vacia que solo los hace quedar mejor a ellos.

Bueno, Don Richard- ya se sabia, ya lo esperabamos. De alguna forma el ya habia muerto para mi, ya que hacia un par de años que ya no interactuabamos. 

Lo de Ricardo trajo una sombra muy oscura en esa familia. Una sombra que Juan trata de iluminar lo mejor que puede, porque aunque no sean parientes de sangre, son su familia. 

Don Richard ha dejado atras todos sus escritos y poemas. El tambien quizo ser lampara en la oscuridad, como alguna vez hubiera sido mi papa, mi abuelo. 

Esta noche le encender una candela, y le hare una oracion para su eterno descanzo. 

Sueños

 I am in El Salv, at home, outdoors. I just finished meditating and I am laying down on the yoga mat. Is night time, and I am about to fall asleep. Suddenly my father comes in, looking for the flashlight.  

I tell him Maria took it, but she is asleep. I pointed out to her bed that is right across from me. I see my dad go to M’s bed and started searching for the flashlight underneath the blankets. I think this is quite inappropriate. I get up and do the search myself. I find it and hand the flashlight to my dad. 

He walks away and I follow behind. I see him pointing the flashlight into the darkness to see if it works. He illuminates a field with wild flowers. 

I go back to the yoga mat, and now I have the flashlight in my hands. I see the wall of a room behind me, the wall is old, falling down. There is a small opening. I point the flashlight there. I heard the voice of an older man crying, or moaning. 

I don’t dare to look.  Sounds like the ghost of someone. 

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In another dream: Someone invited me to another bookclub. (Kevin?) The gathering is in a public space, like a huge shopping mall.  The story is about an older man and his adventures traveling around the world in a small boat. I am sitting, waiting. When suddenly I spotted my Kaiser primary doctor at another table talking to another woman doctor who is Indian. I am debating whether I should say hello. I think is silly! she is just my doctor not my acquaintance. 

A couple of young kids are kissing in front of me. I look at them with tenderness. I see the girl, a young good looking latina, smiling her eyes shining with love. 

I get a call from Kevin, telling me he can’t come to my BC meeting but that I should go to his. He gives me lots of excuses as to why he can’t go to mine. I know he is lying don’t know how, but I know. I say nothing and let him talk. My mind goes to the story I just read…

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

It’s blooming again…!

The plum tree is blooming again and so is my heart. After losing all its leaves and standing completely bare, the plum tree outside my window is blooming again, with pink flowers bursting all over! 


Winter is ending, and spring is near...I am so delighted. New flowers, new promises, new days ahead...my heart is blooming too. 

I have to say that, although I hate the long, foggy summers in this area, I love the winters!

Winter mornings, sunsets, and nights are just so beautiful!!  every morning I wake up to beautiful pinkish-purple skies. Later, the most majestic orange and red sunsets at Ocean Beach,  at night, the best sightings of the moon. 

Absolutely beautiful. 


Monday, January 19, 2026

Wuthering Heights - My notes...

A beautifully written novel, despite the story being far from beautiful. There is no passion or romance in this novel, the love between Heathcliff and Catherine is in the shadows.  

There are no inner reflections or internal conversations in the narrative. Most of the story is the housemaid's account, Ellen/Nelly which she relates to the new tenant after he becomes spooked by Catherine’s ghost and inquires about the history of the place and its residents. 

We learn that Heathcliff is brought into the wealthy family by Catherine's father Mr. Earnshaw, who found Heathcliff wandering alone on the streets. He is described as an orphan, dark color, uneducated gypsy boy. Despite of the objections Mr. Earnshaw officially adopts Heathcliff, so he becomes the adoptive brother of Catherine and Hindley.

Hindley is particularly jealous of Heathcliff and makes his life miserable, treating him poorly and discriminating against him. 

Catherine, a free-spirited girl full of curiosity and thirsty for adventure, finds in Heathcliff a friend and partner in crime, rebelling against the strict and demanding rules of their society.  Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love with each other. However, because of their difference in social status, a marriage is not possible.  So Catherine marries Edgar Linton, a boy from another wealthy family. This hurts Heathcliff deeply, he ends up leaving and swearing revenge to everyone who hurt him. As the story develops, Heathcliff turns into a monster.  

There is no one single character in the novel that I could sympathize with. At the end of the novel I sympathize more with Hareton, the son of Hindley, who ends up living with Heathcliff after his dad dies. Heathcliff purposely treats him poorly to revenge the treatment he received from the father. 

In my opinion, Emily Bronte is illustrating the negative impact of denying the union of two souls meant to be together, simply to comply with social norms. An illness develops from this separation, and everyone involved becomes sick with it. The writing is so exquisite allowing some sort of enjoyment from the dark and bleak narrative. 

It amuses me that a movie based on this novel is being promoted right now for Valentine’s Day, because is far from that. Unless Hollywood reshaped the story to make it more romantic. The story for me, fits more for Halloween, as it is full of darkness, illness and ghosts. Very dark. I heard someone in Youtube describe it as a Gothic novel and compare it to Frankenstein, and I agree. 

I enjoyed reading it, I was going to re read from the beginning, now that I know the characters. However, I thought best to read it another time.  

I've been reading about Emily Bronte.  I have a new admiration for her as a writer. This is the only novel she ever published, wondering if it was because of the critics reaction to this one, which was no favorable. They hated her novel but praised her sisters’ more romantic and conventional works. 











Wuthering Heights in relation to my dream

I’ve just realized the connection between this book and the actress in my earlier dream.

I first learned about W.H.  from a movie I watched with Juan in our apartment in El Salvador more than two decades ago. The movie was about an upper class family, that puts a room for rent in the mansion they live. They rented it to a young man that teaches literature in a high school nearby. He befriended the landlord's younger daughter, who also has a passion for books. They talk about W.H. and discuss other classic books. The young girl falls madly in love with the tenant, being the only interested men she had met so far. She is very attractive, the type that would be dating equally attractive sporty young men. However, she has a passion for poetry, books and all things that enrich the soul. The boys that courted her, are all dumb and ordinary. 

The  tenant is older than her, and maybe not so sporty and handsome, but shares the same interest. She falls madly in love with him. But he has a steady girlfriend, and is about to get married. The teenage daughter becomes obsessed with the tenant, and the plot follows how that obsession slowly becomes destructive. 

In my dream, I wanted an “alternative ending” for the girl in the movie. In the dream, she is my sister. I always wanted to save my sister, I wanted her to be more selective with guys, not to choose men who were only interested in her body.  

I fell asleep just when I was about to finish the novel. So in my dream, I had options for how the story ended. 

That is the connection of the novel to the dream.


Sueños 2

 I am about to set up my work computer in the garage, I am in my house in El Salvador, I  am about to start working. Someone in a large van like U-haul pushes so strongly the door of the garage, next door that it tapped me. I am thankfully trapped where there is a phone. I started calling and making all kinds of noise but no one comes. I do something that moves the vehicle? the van breaks the door and the large computer monitor. I am indignant, and looking for the responsible. I see is a couple, a woman and men. They are moving furniture next door. I tell them what they did, they immediately blame me. I called the police, but the police man only talks to them and not me, and leaves. I am more indignant! I am on the street looking for the Richmond District police. I think how unpoetic is the name of the place. 

I go inside the office. I see some police guy he looks like a goblin. Is the same one that ignored me. He continues to do so. I go inside another big room, they are about to start rehearsing. There is a girl, a small fat girl with huge eye glasses. I remember she is to blame, I tell her in her face that she will pay for all the damage done to my work station.



Sueños

 I am at Withering Heights, on a cobblestone road, coming down with a cart filled with books, that the suitors of Catherine had written. I am going to help her select which one. Each had an alternative ending to the book. 

I get to the room where she is, I find my sister Dana sitting on a bench in front of the mirror doing her hair. Her hair is very long. Suddenly we are both getting ready to go out. She tells me that she is planning to have sex that night. I get surprised at first, and was about to tell her we are not allowed. When I remembered that she already had a child, so she isn’t virgin anymore. I say: I guess you can. I am still a virgin I can’t. She started putting makeup up on and telling me stories of how she already slept with 2 guys. I am listening while wondering if I would’ve done the same.

I am back to being outside, and now I am sorting through the books, looking for one book written by a guy that for whatever reason I  think is the only one worth reading. I want my sister to pick this guy. Not some dumb nobody. I feel she isn’t going to listen to me. Someone, an older woman is there with me. She said: you are picking a guy for you, not for you sister. I know she’s right.

There is some sort of a famous actress inside a house. We all want to talk to her?  or I want her to read the book? I can’t remember why but I am trying to find someone to put me in touch with her. I want to show her something. I have a book that was illustrated, each page has amazing drawings. Suddenly I questioned if I picked the book for the drawings or the story. 



Sunday, January 18, 2026

El Corazón de Poeta…

 Esta canción se me ha venido a la cabeza, últimamente.

https://youtu.be/r1uhM5W9hr4?si=g8TrgFr8ilQo7mOd  

Baje la canción para escucharla, mientras caminaba frente a la playa. 

Me nacieron muchos versos, no escribí nada. 

Tome fotografías de sombras y detalles de luz. 

Será que el poeta que busco afuera lo llevó yo misma aquí adentro mío? 

NEW PLAN!

 New Plan: 

Work on more than one oil painting. Work as fast as you can, to have at least 3 painting finish by the end of February. Working fast will allow me to loosen up and be more expressive, than overthinking details. 


Sueños

Strange dreams… 

I spent all night dreaming that I was in the court. Judge was some strange creature made with AI that was glitching. 
They released us to take a break. Then something about calculating how long the case will take. Someone ( a lawyer? ) is trying to predict the length of the case. I can’t remember exactly, but it was kind of frustrating. They kept telling us one thing but the results were very different. 

Remember walking around long hallways and doors, then going to an office where the rest of jury is. The AI judge is glitching making him look like a demon. Me thinking that this will become the “norm” we will forget how things were before, and we will accept this as the new reality. A system that was designed not to fail, to automate tasks and solve things for us, is failing, is glitching. We are under the illusion that is better and will accept it as is. 

Saturday, January 17, 2026

No Rest for the Wicked

Another productive but super exhausting day! 

After waking up super early and spending about 3 hours reading Wuthering Heights, I finally got up and made French toast with blackberries, which I ate on the balcony. 

The day was beautiful, the birds were chirping, there were moons and rainbows everywhere in the room. 



Went to the gym, spent about 1 hour and half; came home, ate and read book Antifragility (chapter  about  the benefits of procrastination, how sometimes is best to let things follow their course instead of trying to control it)

After the reading break, I started moving all the magazines and collage material to the car, then drove to Studio at Delano, and unloaded all the magazines and rest of stuff.  

Spent 4 hours at Studio, cleaning, organizing, setting up lights, etc. 

On the way back home, I spotted a small tall table, just like the one I was looking for to buy for the studio. I couldn't believe it! The same table I was looking for, was right there on the corner, someone was getting rid of it. It was like a present from the Universe!!  It was heavy and it took a lot of effort to put it inside the car, but it fits just perfect. Is exactly what I was looking for! 

Spent about 2 hours cleaning up, and finishing up the oil painting studio! Had a little dinner then sat down to send 4 videos to Lydia for Cracked Skull project. And that's the end of it. 

So much lifting and carrying today, my back is killing me! 

I didn’t have time to think or get distracted by filling my head with ideas. I was very focused on the work I was doing. 

Tomorrow morning, after the meeting with M & L , I will take a break and relax, and take it easy! Maybe do some Yoga and that’s it! 

the good news, Monday is a holiday, MLK day.  

The Outsider is not the Artist

The first completed art piece carries a certain purity in its creation, because the process is untouched by the opinions of outside viewers. It’s important to remember that the public’s reaction to your work is ultimately irrelevant to you as an artist. This isn’t something you learn overnight; it only becomes possible when you are consciously aware of it.

Public opinion (whether praise or criticism) always finds its way back into the studio and lingers in the next creation. That’s where the risk begins: obeying an outside voice instead of your own. If the work is dismissed, you may begin to doubt yourself, your process, and even stop altogether or alter your work to fit someone else’s taste. If it’s praised, the danger lies in trying to repeat it, producing something similar or safe. Either way, the voice being followed is no longer the artist’s, but someone else’s.

That goes against the very purpose of having an artistic point of view, one that is different, personal, and unique.

The artist must learn to let go of the art piece once is done and move on to the next, allowing the work to exist and do its own work in the universe. Some will love it, some will hate it, some will ignore it entirely. Regardless, this remains irrelevant to the artist, whose true task is to continue searching, questioning, and exploring the unknown universe around us, in a truthful honest manner.

Sueños

1st dream: I am going up a structure in front of an apartment. I get to the top, and have amazing views of the ocean. 

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2nd Dream: 

- There is a woman who killed or tried to kill somebody, and someone I am trapped in the car with her. She doesn’t know I know she is a murderer.  Another woman is trying to get her to confess. I escaped somehow. Want to use the bathroom badly, can’t find one. Found a toilet but is in the middle of a huge room no walls around it. I will use it because I am desperate. Children suddenly started to show up around me. I can’t do nothing. 

——-

3rd Dream: 

I am walking down on clement st, going to green apple to find a book. As I am walking I pass a coffee shop. I see J sitting having coffee with some lady. Looks young and attractive. I feel jealous- l entered the bookshop and kept looking at the window to see if I see something. I turned around and they were both inside the bookstore buying a book. I want to hide, I go to the top of the building and saw a new view of the street. I started taking photos. I want to go back down but can find the door I feel I am locked out. There is a ladder but locks dangerous. I am about to try the ladder when I woke up. 

Friday, January 16, 2026

A Summer Day in January!

 Yesterday, I was too tired to go for a walk, today I was happy and filled with energy. The day out was sunny and beautiful! noticed the building across and decided to go explore for photos. Got some super beautiful geometries from the parking lot, and a view of the ocean I hadn't seen before. 



Right after work I'll walk to the ocean for sunset photos they are going to be spectacular 

The morning after...

I am very emotional this morning. I am grateful to have met such beautiful people. I am overwhelmed with love and sadness. 

Porque tengo que amarrar o hacer algo de algo? dejalo fluir, dejalo ser lo que es. Sentilo, vivilo, respiralo, pero no trates de controlarlo, de convertirlo en algo, porque alli es cuando se destruye. Al convertirlo en 'algo' entonces le das una definicion, le das un nombre. Y ese algo abstracto, libre y bello, se estanca, tratando de someterse a la definicion. Estancado en el nombre. 

Sentilo, en el pecho, como vibra, como encienden todos los cables internos de mi alma. Dar gracias, gracias al universo, por la gente que he conocido, por el poeta, el escritor, el astronomo, el musico, que han cruzado camino conmigo. Me elevan el espiritu. Vuelo por encima de esta ciudad, que cada vez se siente mas fria, mas solitaria mas vacia. 

Me siento muy afortunada, muy muy afortunada. Tengo que ser muy cuidadosa, precavida, romperlo todo en el lienzo, no en emails o en meetings. En el Lienzo, lo voy a dejar ir todo...todo. Voy ha hacer una pintura inspirada en ti, y tu nunca lo sabras, es mejor que no lo sepas...


Sueños

 I walked into a room, I heard my name. I turned around and I see my friend -( who is the Thailand guy the defendant from jury) He has no shirt. He is happy to see me. I am not sure if we are supposed to talk to each other. I said hello from a distance. He gets closer and shows me his skin. He takes a piece of his flesh like a piece of meat and wants me to have it. 

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Another dream: 

I am in a gathering- some people I know are there. The gathering is outdoors, there are tables , chairs, food, and people walking around. 

I get the sense that this is for more upper class people. I take a sit at my “spot”, the moment I sit down, someone hands me a gift. A big bulky present with a card. I take it and put it down surprised. 

I am suddenly very thirsty, and walked to look for something to drink. As I am walking I feel the darkness of the sky above me. I look up, and the sky is filled with stars. I contemplate for a moment. 

Kept walking towards the kitchen area. For some reason I think of my “friend” - Wondered if he is here. I arrived to the table and see a glass filled with lemonade. I grabbed it to take to my table. But somehow, someone knocked down my glass and all the lemonade spilled. 

I am a little disappointed and still very thirsty. I continue walking, I arrived to an open area where there ara some kids watching a men (my friend?) set up a huge telescope. He wants to capture something in space with the telescope and show it to the kids who are all very curious. 

When suddenly the telescope hits an electrical cable, the cable sparks. Everyone runs in a panic. I run too! I remembered that this place burned down before, and the same thing can happen now.  I followed 2 people into a hallway and then a door. One of them pulls an “alarm”, that someone installed after the first fire.  

I wonder if my friend is safe. If the kids are all ok. I can’t see the place where I am standing, so I moved to a little hill. Suddenly Javier showed up wearing a wet cloth on his face and a strange helmet. Right behind him S. He comes out and has no shirt. He doesn’t know I am there, he is only talking to Javier. I get angry and I said: so you are not even worried about me, huh? He turned around looks at me. I realized that I was not worried about him either, but said nothing. 



Thursday, January 15, 2026

My Art Studios!

Back home, back to work, back to some sense of 'normalcy". Work is busy, demanding as always. Nothing of interest or peculiar to write about. Just the same old routine. Boring meeting, phone calls, emails etc. 

I feel super exhausted and burned out. There was so much added stress this past week! but, in spite of how tired I was, I spent every evening putting time and effort to organize my oil painting studio at home. Which I more or less finished it last night. 

Still lots of things to clean up, magazines and art materials to bring to the other studio, but it’s pretty much done. My heart feels full. I realized that this is what I always wanted, an oil painting studio, to paint like the Masters! For the record, for future references, here are some photos of before- and after: 

                                                             HOME ART STUDIO BEFORE


                                                          HOME ART STUDIO NOW!! 


Interesting that after renting a studio space and moving to this other apartment two years ago, and having a lot more space, I was still working in a cluttered, disorganized environment, just like I did in the previous smaller apartment. I only had one small room for art,  which I used for everything! later thanks to covid I had to shrink it, and add a home -office,  and I had even less space. I remembered how frustrated and unhappy I was almost gave up on painting! 

Here are some photos for me to look back:



Painting with oils forced me to reorganize. I realized that when you work with oils, you can’t have paper and other types of media around. It gets too messy and chaotic. Also, due to the toxic fumes it requires more cleaning and maintenance. I really needed to dedicate a space exclusively to oil painting. 

I’ve now successfully created four separate workspaces: 

At home: One space for oil painting only and a drawing/sketching station I set up next to my home-office area. 

Workspace Artist Studio: Divided the studio in two, one area for collaging and another for painting with acrylics. And I have plenty of room for both. 

I reached one milestone goal for 2026. Now moving on to the next steps: continue working on both painting series; continue working on comic drawing; start the paper collage project, and plan for  AI video animation. Update website and join more art shows. 












Sueño

 I am at a party, in a small living room filled with people.

I want everyone to dance to Saturday Night Fever song . 

I started getting a group of people together. A couple of girls, one whose name was “Mary” and a couple of black younger guys. A very old lady also joined. 

We were having problems starting the music. Someone had to figure it out. Finally started. It was the beginning of Bohemian rhapsody. We all started singing.  The old lady leaned in a couch, while performing the lyrics, she leaned so much she almost fell. I thought she was hilarious.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Innocent!!

 The verdict was reached yesterday. They just called me now.  I am not happy that I wasn’t there to congratulate the guy. Jury duty over!! I am done! Yey! 

Life back to normal… hopefully not for long. 

need to write story.

Ooooh I am so happy! 

New Version

 I complained to Juan about the latest Iphone update. How I couldn’t find my photos and messed up a couple of emails, because of it. He replied: “it was a good thing then!” I didn’t understand what he meant by that until now. 

The Iphone update is forcing me to retrain the brain, something that had become routine now is new and requires my attention. Is not mechanical anymore. 

This morning, while driving to the hall of justice, I attempted to not use the gps, to see how much attention I’ve been paying. Failed! had to use it. Couldn’t do it on my own. 

As I am driving underneath the freeway overpass, I spotted a billboard, advertising: Intelligence. The artificial type. The one that would made people pay less and less attention. I felt a little apprehensive about this. 

Last night, during my meditation, I was asked to visualize the many versions of me. I thought of the different kinds of me that have walked on these streets in the last past week. How the first week I was completely ON, taking all the new landscape in, absorbing all the beauty I could, taking notes of shadows and interesting walls. 

Now I walked a little bit more different. But I am also different. Very different. There is a tendency to think I am the same as always. Perhaps expect the same behaviors, and act mechanically to situations. I don’t know where I am going with this. Will write more about it later. 


Dreams: Nothing worth to note. I remember dreaming that I was talking to Melissa, helping her with something. That’s all I remember no other details. 

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Productive afternoon..

-Uneventful jury day, no word from the court. I guess no verdict yet. 

-Walked around and took some pics. 

-at home,  read El síntoma invisible - An essay by Juan on the perpetual fight of the United States, with the “immigrant” the “other”. J makes the point that the illness is the system itself, but that illness hides behind the symptoms: the immigrants. Is a way for USA to avoid seeing their system as the problem. The American dream as failure.

-read  a chapter on Latrogenics- interesting example he gives about the editors who edit the already edited text. Same happens with digital photos, too much editing and filters to improve, ruin the soul of the photo.  Also a point on how too many signalization and safety devices for drivers, is making the streets less safe, as driver are less and less inclined to pay attention. 

-Wrote a long email to Juan- struggled getting point across. 

-Found another email in my drafts, so frustrating. Will write from computer from now on and not the phone. 

-I spent the next three hours setting up my oil painting studio and made a lot of progress. Joining a call with Melissa and Bambashita definitely helped! it kept me entertained. Conversation was good. 

Feeling pretty good because I am on schedule with the studios. I should have all 3 art studios done by the weekend.  

Next Steps: 

- Finish Oil Painting

- Work on Acrylic painting that follows 3iAtlas 

-Continue working on the collage series

-Need to start submitting for more Art shows 

- Apply to City Art gallery again? (question mark on this one!) 

-Considering taking an online literature class in City college, probably for the fall. 

- want to find book club that is talking about wuthering heights 





Martes 13

Last night, I finished work, read book, went to gym, worked out an hour and half. Came home, had dinner: plant based tacos. Spent the rest of the night moving and organizing my oil painting studio. 

Fell asleep listening to my meditation. 

Woke up a couple of times. Fell asleep again. 

Had a dream that I was going to take the train with Mr. Rossi. We were going to see a play, someone we both knew was in it. I couldn’t tell if Mr. Rossi was in a good or bad mood. ( Later, I remembered that this was always the first work inquiry: is he in a bad or in a good mood today?  

Drove to Hall of Justice parking lot. Walked to Peet’s for coffee. Sat down to work. 

Across from me a group of gentlemen in their fifties, they look so familiar. Same men, same manners, same look as the many group of men I encountered downtown. 

Listen to a podcast about E. H.  Made notes of a few things we have in common: 

-  wanted to study fine art, family conviced him to go for commercial art 

-Went for months without painting because didn’t know what to paint 

- Had zero interest in socializing with the art world 

- No children, dedicated his life to his art 

- Got most of his inspiration from his commutes to the city.

First podcast I heard they pointed out how his wife is the model for all of his paintngs. The way they said it sounded as he was so inspired by his wife. On the other podcast, they claimed that the reason was because the wife was so jealous, would not allow another woman to pose for him. 

Hilarious!... apparently they fought a lot, and he was not nice to his wife. His wife Josephine, "Jo" was also a painter, he didn't respect her art, however, it is because of her that he found success as a painter. 

Need to sear for her paintings now. 

Podcast talked about famous painting Nighthawks apparently inspired by a short story by Hemmingway the Killers. Got the story and will put it for book club. 






Monday, January 12, 2026

Quick Annotations for later...

today i heard the closing arguments today. The prosecutor ( who I refer to as Daly City") was wearing the same black suit she wore since the beginning of the case. Must remember the many faces I saw in her. First day, black mass of shapeless hair over her shoulders. Second day, hair was fastened with a large clip. Little make up, a bit of acne in her cheeks added texture to her face. No earings, the only accessory were her glasses and fake eyelashes. She has wore the same black suit, same generic black pumps, small heels.  
I’m sure she has a whole row of black suits in her closet. 

She presented her case by displaying "the roadmap" on the huge computer screen behind her. Her face was severe, made her look older, reminded me of my school principal, the one i was always afraid of. 
The Road Map was simple and to the point: 
-The Law 
-The Facts 
- How the Law Apply to the Facts. 

The defense attorney (a Jesus-like figure) wore different suits, variations of gray and dark gray, paired with colorful ties. His hair was always down, somehow perpetually messy. His shoes never changed: glossy, two-tone black and white. He spoke softly, and provided more details of all the nuances and other issues with the roadmap. I am so eager to know what the verdict will be. 

As soon as I am done setting up my art studio, I will sit down and write down a short story based on my experience. Will share the story with Juan, for sure. He'll be the only one to read it, hopefully he can help me edit. 

Speaking of Juan, got an email from him today. As always so sweet and supportive. I shouldn't paranoid.  
I am better now. It took him a long time to reply, but he did reply. Yes, not as fast as he used to, but he did reply, and he is basically the same friendly Juan I know. 

I was released early, but given all the stress of the morning, I took some time to walk around the area and enjoy the beautiful the sunny day. On Thursday I spotted the SFDC - a place I was very familiar with, when I used to work for Rossi Antiques. 

I decided to visit the design center again for old times sake, and also because i was curious to see if any of the old interior designers are still there. 

At the entrance, a woman asked if I needed directions. I said no and kept walking with confidence. I have no business or agenda here. Just here for a look. 

I know this is a public space, anyone can come in and wander through the showrooms. No just anyone, though. The furniture here is made for the super-wealthy. This is where bored rich wives, filled with botox come to choose a new couch or a new countertop, either for a new home they bought in Atherton or because they are just bored with the old furniture, and by this I mean their husbands. 

The center inside looks the same, however the directory I only recognized two names: Shumaker and Ninca Campbell - none of the designers I met when working at Rossi's were here. 

The showrooms that once displayed overly ornamented armchairs, bulky credenzas with marble tops, and gilded hardware, now has been replaced by square, simpler, smoother designs. The furniture is clean, simplistic, minimalist. The hardware is hidden- the surface of tables is smooth, not distressed like they used to produce at Rossi's, so that they look like 'original antiques' - Hilarious! 

Back then, displaying wealth meant filling your house with Louis XV–style furniture. Furniture that looked as it belonged to a castle. Now, the antique furniture of the ’90s has itself become antique and obsolete, as what is trendy today are smooth, modern, geometric shapes with clean, precise cuts.

Is going to change again, it changes every 10 years.  

I walked around, reminiscing about my time working for the hyper-wealthy. In the hallway, I saw a man on the phone, apologizing profusely to a client because a table they had delivered had a small dent. 
Funny!... I thought... back then the carpenters deliberately would add dents and beat up a table. The more battered it looked, the more “antique” it became. Now, a single small dent turns a table into a flaw.

Very little people inside. A few ladies that reminded me of Helga, walking around with samples of fabrics or wood; Same look. Dyed blonde hair  pulled in the back, oversized glasses, attire that looks somehow expensive but also over-used,  same mannerisms, I mistook one lady for her, but immediately remember that the Helga I know, is much older than this lady.  She looks a lot like her though, if it wasn't because she does not have the same voice or german accent, I would have thought it was Helga.  Interesting to note that some things never go out of trend. 

If that was Helga, I would have said Hello, asked how she was. I remember her fondly. She appreciated me artistic eye and skills, and I appreciated hers. I also learned a lot from her, more than I learned from other female "managers". The difference was that Helga and I shared a sensibility for art. Something rare to find in the insurance industry, especially in management. I'll never forget when she asked for me to join her in her trip to the Design Center in LA. She saw something in me. She also brought me to visit the houses of a few hyper wealthies in SF - something no other employee got to do. I remember she saying to me in her heavy german accent: 

"Dilci: I want for you to see how that chair, that table we just sold to the client,  becomes part of a larger work of art in the client’s home. I want you to fall in love with what you do". 

And I did fell in love, it did give me a lot of sense of design and space, but I did not fall in love with the clients, too high-maintenance, you had to roll a red-carpet every time one came to visit. They expected the royal treatment and I was not going to play that game. Nah- ah.  

Fuck the royals! 

 
Took this picture from the view: 

Lots of empty showrooms. Also, empty in compare to the days I used to come here. There were more people walking around, sitting on chairs, selecting fabric. 



A picture of my reflection - because I must. 



Loved the wall paper in the back- took a picture because I might recreate that in my  room. 


A painting that reminded me of one of my paintings...I can't afford the furniture they sell here, but I know I can produce a painting like this one. 




A painting by Alex Kanevsky, or at least it looks a lot like his style. 



NUMBERS!! On 8th Street at 12 PM.  Signs and symbols of the labyrinth. Signs and symbols of the road map... signs and symbols of Time... 


 

Road Maps vs Real Life

 Woke up around 7:30 - overslept. Wrote down dreams and opened work computer. Answered a couple of emails and set up my out of office. 

Got a call. Jock asking for help! unnecessary! I had repeatedly given him the information before. But He needs it now and doesn’t have it. 10 minutes delay. Picked up late from La Promenade, drove to Hall of Justice. Traffic seriously bad. The GPS is sending me through freeway. I am 8 minutes away, could’ve been on time, but the cars aren’t moving. Got off Freeway thinking it would be faster, WRONG!!  Extremely complicated area, many one way streets and entrances to freeways, UPS trucks double parked. 

The Parking is on the other side but can’t get there!! Had to turn around and get stuck in traffic again. 

Arrived, finally! parked, ran to security entrance, received a call from bailiff: where are you? 

“ I am literally in the elevator” 

elevator opens to the basement. Heard a voice in the back: “you pushed the wrong button” -not me, someone else accidentally pressed the B button!! another unnecessary delay. Wait for elevator to stop at 1st floor then 2nd. 

Turned the right to room 31, everyone there already just waiting for me! Judge announced court in session!! 

Me: A bit embarrassed, I would like to explain my delay but I can’t, no one cares is all forgotten now. Is only me still thinking about it. 

Nothing is linear absolutely NOTHING! Even if the road map says so. Like the GPS, yes it showed me a linear way to the courthouse, but fails to point out all the unpredictable issues on the way. 

The prosecutor today, showed us a “Road Map” : 

- The Law 

- The Facts 

- How the law is applied to the Facts. 

The road map, in the form of big green letters against the blackness of a computer screen. She made sure to point out which part of the map we were, as for us not to get lost. 

The road map might be linear in paper, in the GPS, in the computer screen, but in real life, Nothing is linear ever. 

Closing Arguments: 

Prosecutor: Linear Road Map 

Defense Attorney: Nuances of the map. Non Linear