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Willa Cather moved to the forms of art that would get to the actual transference and the true desire of art without those cultural or artistic boundaries—and in that the Being itself and the vitalness of the art would be the cultural structure, not by-passed in missed direction. Seeded in the strongest, most vital, individualistic earth, and grow her beyond the boundaries into Beingness was the ancient and the newly-realized complete strength and freedom of life itself.

At the time in NYC when Willa Cather was surrounded in a social and literary environment where the up and coming boys like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and perhaps even George Bernard Shaw after her “London Roses,” were freely taking her understated and ground-breaking words as their own and giving extremely-minimal-to-non-existent credit to her—she an accomplished novelist, poet and top magazine editor—and what after her passing Truman Capote would do to her in culling together Breakfast at Tiffany’s from her vision, characters, and stories and making it about his dark self instead of her extraordinary vision—intrepidly reinstated by Audrey Hepburn—Willa impelled herself further into deep, careful contemplation of how to take her revolutionary insight of the feminine and the possibilities of...

My heart map of Greenwich Village, 2010"How Willa Cather's Breakfast at Tiffany's Began in the Village (1908), Falling in Love with John Mayer in 2010"A romance on top of a romance, a movie across a century, and a reality of falling in love and having the sweetest, most quiet relationship with @johnmayer .This is where writing screenplays at the time of first coming to know John became looking closer at the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's and the writer Willa Cather's work which first developed right on Washington Square Park. My screenplay sequel "Dinner at Tiffany's" which takes place "after the ending credits kiss" into what love actually is that I had worked on drafts for years, morphed into coming to know John...