What I'm reading: Paradiso , in English translation. Written by Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba while under Castro's regime. B/c he was a writer as well as a homosexual, Lezama Lima had a very, very hard life in Cuba. He starved much of the time and most of his work under Castro was censored and kept from publication. Lezama Lima has been dead for a long time now. But in the photo below, he is pictured in his home office  which looks remarkably like mine when I'm in one of my deadline-induced artistic frenzies!! Anyway, Paradiso is a beautiful book written about turn-of-the-century Havana and it is considered a bold book b/c of its open stance on the beauty of homosexuality.

(Honestly, gang, if you're still living and writing in a free-ish world, be as bold as you can be! It might not count today but someday it will find its voice. It's all about perspective & the power of love.) See ya, gang!!