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  Conservatives would like for us to learn the Hebrew Bible and abide by it as the rules for our lives. I grew up with it. My name is in Jacob's prophecy, "Until Shiloh comes.” I am female. I knew as a child they didn’t like females, and later I saw that the curse in Genesis occurs at a reference to my name, of course in a sacred grove. I dearly love the forest where I live, the Lincoln National Forest. The opening of Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop follows the path up with references to the Jornada del Muerto of a red rock terrain and which is near my home in New Mexico. It is the description...

  Many years ago scholar Tom Quirk showed how F. Scott Fitzgerald while writing The Great Gatsby (1925) was influenced by/and or plagiarized Willa Cather's writing. Fitzgerald himself had to admit it at the success of his novel. In particular, that he had been so deeply affected by what she was tapping into I believe that he also wanted to know and present that feminine ardor of presence Willa was able to emanate off the page. Quirk wrote, "Willa Cather had written Fitzgerald of her admiration of Gatsby in the spring of 1925; the next fall she would begin to write what she ultimately considered her finest novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)." On 28 April 1925--now 99 1/2...

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...

It's the caper of the millennium and it's ON.