Monthly Archives: November 2025

The New Thanksgiving Travel

Posted on November 23, 2025 by jillbpearlman

Thanksgiving Travel You used to see the Bay; now on the way to SFOa bevy of clashing billboards, all blood-bright graphics and codes incomprehensible to the AI-dumb among us.Dumb and dumber.   Look at the airline staff: all yawns, blank, demoted to … Continue reading →

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Be Here Now, California (gaps included)

Posted on November 16, 2025 by jillbpearlman

Imagine, at this age, to have brought beginner’s mind to California.  Where have I been?  In the land of the skeptic, in France.  But what luck to have had California before me.  Full-on sensory discovery. Enthusiasm has a way of being boundless. (Forgive me … Continue reading →

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To Rachel, at 30

Posted on November 16, 2025 by jillbpearlman

Rachel is ecstatic, sparks of static electricity travelingto, from and between her and us She may have rubbed her back on a charged shag rug Yesterday her last sunset in her 20s5:04, only the sun’s orange cap, 5:05, cap sinks into … Continue reading →

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On Seeing Kara Walker in Mary Janes

Posted on November 10, 2025 by jillbpearlman

I was curious about the guard when she came over.There was a gap between her teeth, coffee-skinned, in museum guard clothes.  Around us the monstrosities of race, freestanding caricatures of the enslaved with robotic nerves – a man strives after a severed limb; … Continue reading →

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