Books of the Southwest presents THE HERMES IN BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S happening in art and reality to break open a wrong. The world-altering artists are in full view. They are always necessary when freedom and spiritual abundance have been closed off and not 'allowed' to be spoken, as Homer showed in his epic song, rumor holds over the eternal artistic voice until it can be internally known. In brief, Penelope is the only one who speaks it and moves on. It started with a concocted lie about John Mayer brewing from 2008 from a young plagiarist in the music industry with hired marketers and publicists from a capitalist's money.
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Up from 'The Crosses' of Las Cruces on the Jornada del Muerto there is a 400 year old Juniper Tree

 

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 of the bishop arriving. (My father was a minister.)


"The blunted pyramid, repeated so many hundred times upon his retina and crowding down upon him in the heat, had confused the traveller, who was sensitive to the shape of things. “Mais c’est fantastique!” he muttered, closing his eyes to rest them from the intrusive omnipresence of the triangle. When he opened his eyes again, his glance immediately fell upon one juniper which differed in shape from the others. It was not a thick-growing cone, but a naked, twisted trunk, perhaps ten feet high, and at the top it parted into two lateral, flat-lying branches, with a little crest of green in the centre, just above the cleavage. Living vegetation could not present more faithfully the form of the Cross. The traveller dismounted, drew from his pocket a much worn book, and baring his head, knelt at the foot of the cruciform tree."

That road is just miles outside my front door. There’s a 400 year old Juniper tree there.

Michelangelo painted the entire Sistine Chapel Ceiling about my name, from the front door to the back wall, which also happens to be about my last name. He painted it in the years matching the verses of Genesis 49: 08-12: from 1508 to 1512, on purpose. (My name is in 49:10, which contains my birthdate and John Mayer's.) On the 500 year anniversary in 2008, unaware of this, I walked into Willa Cather's photograph of herself in front of a cathedral from a balcony in Santa Fe. John was singing "No One" with Alicia Keys that night at the Grammys. We were about to come to know each other.

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