“Life, it IS.” -TBG

When reading, whatever I am reading, I KNOW that the writing is far and away better than good when I can feel my pupils dilate, my body relax and my brain start putting out what it recognizes as high-alpha.

That’s what I experienced while reading this page, thanking whatever fates may be who tossed it into my path, as I read it.

Maybe it was the ghost of Melina Mercouri who brought me here.

I loved her, throughout her career, and something made me think of her, today, so I went looking for videos of her and specific quotes.

One of them was “I give you milk and honey and in return you give me poison,” a quote that has proven effective over the years in making people who return bad for the good they are given, mindful of just exactly what they are doing. And it was the quote that brought me here.

The first quote I thought about, though, I couldn’t find.

Melina was a passionate Scorpio woman — as I myself would like to think that I am *L* — and she was being interviewed one time and the fact her astrological sign was a Scorpio came up and she said, something like: “Yes, darling, I’m a Scorpio, you know, we all have a stinger in our tails.” But I cannot find the interview.

I did remind my husband today how much he used to love to hear me quote that line.

Oh, enough about me, I just wanted to say how glad I am to have found this page — the images, the mention of JG Ballard — one of my favorite authors and Fellini — nostalgia, graffiti, passion — and it’s as if it was written just for me, as if you wrote it, knowing that I’d come here and find it today!

And really, that’s one of the reasons an author writes, isn’t it?

Didn’t mean to gush, or ramble, hope what I said wasn’t too florid or purple or Walt-Whitmanish in its I-ness — just wanted to say it all — to let you know the impact of your words on one of us out here.

Thank you.