Tulip Millionairess --- Day 6/293

Walk: T. Joe's by cab
Distance: Up/Down x 3, exercises/asanas/pedals

So if this were Holland during Tulipmania, Ciwt would be rich, rich, rich thanks to a wonderful friend who surprised her with her favorite flower today.  

Who Can Capture Dusk? --- Day 6/292

Walk:  To and From 3 Jackson bus, couple of blocks on Fillmore - back in immobilizer.  Ciwt is                      being  a good patient
Distance: A few blocks, Up/Down, exercises/asanas 1.5 hours

One of Ciwt's favorite things about this long twilight time of year is 'official' dusk.  It is a little dusky now even at the height of day, and something in Ciwt resists that. But then she looks up and sees the low light has mellowsd into something beautiful, irresistable.  Soft, gentle, glowing with elongated shadows in unexpected places. And sad in an ambiguous way that somehow doesn't upset Ciwt but touches her deeply.  She wants to hold on to the look, the feeling, but when she looks up again,  twilight has ebbed into dark night.

Kat and Kitten Kitsch --- Day 6/291

Walk: No
Distance: 0 by PT orders, 2 hrs. exercises/asanas

Advent calendar (?!) sent by friend.  Ciwt hasn't encountered one of these since childhood.  These are her types of cats though - long hair, puffy - so she keeps it on display and dreads opening all the little windows right in the middle of their cute faces or ears or eyes.  Somehow doesn't seem entirely thought through.  Fingers crossed a few of these look alikes will come into Ciwt's life.

And what do we have here but another puffy cat sent by a friend who is an accomplished accordionist - even had her own band? The dog doesn't look too thrilled though by the personal serenade he's getting.  

It appears art tour impresaria Ciwt has been so long in her pink environment she's even broken her No Cute Cat Pictures Around the House rule and is enjoying some that have arrived.  Wonder what her place will look like when this healing is complete...Maybe by then she'll have returned to the Dogs Playing Cards she's tried all these years to forget. (Please see CIWT 5/284)

Non-linear --- Day 6/290

Walk: new PT
Distance:  14 blocks, a few exercises

So, when they tell you healing isn't a linear thing, believe them.  

Necessary Rain and Relaxation --- Day 6/289

Walk: No, rain and still kind of recovering from last few days 
Distance: Various circuits around the pad, flexion routine every 1/2 hour, yawn...

Color Ciwt like this today.  Reading a good book (Saints for All Occasions) in the subdued light as it rained today - oh, except for the blond hair, the teenage years, and, sadly, the cat.  Still a very nice day for Ciwt and the Bay Area which loves the rain.

Ole* --- Day 6/288

Walk: AMC Kabuki (Coco)
Distance: 1.5 miles, some exercises, probably a good day to back off

So, if for no other reason, go to Coco for the visuals.  Not just because there is a lot of (Ciwt) pink.  They are vibrantly alive fine art - so captivating Ciwt would have eagerly watched every frame even if Coco didn't have a story line.  But it does, one that sneaks up on you before you realize how deeply touched you are.

Then go for the voice acting.  The charmingly handsome Gael Garcia Bernal is charmingly handsome even as a skeleton's voice.  And a twelve year old boy (Anthony Gonzalez VIII) does a great job voicing a twelve year old boy - when so often animated movies use women to voice young boys and girls.  Benjamin Bratt is excellent as are all the members of the cast.

As she watched and got a little confused herself about what was life and what afterlife, Ciwt wondered if the children in the audience were following the plot and engaged.  Well, spontaneously after the movie as the credits rolled this happened: 
(Kind of hard to capture in the dark but the kids ran up onto the stage and began dancing around.  All the grown ups, including Ciwt, were standing around watching and taking pictures.  So unexpected and heart-warming).

*For people wanting to budget their time and only see excellent movie making be warned there is an unannounced and (as one viewer said) 'utterly asinine' 20-minute Disney short before Coco.

(Too) In The Pink? --- Day 6/287

Walk: To car for longer-than-a-few-blocks road trip to Legion of Honor
Distance: A few blocks, Exercises/Asanas/Pedaling 

For some reason Ciwt was drawn to works by San Francisco photographer, Rachelle Bussieres,  which she encountered in a photography gallery the other day.  They were just so sort of unexpected, soft, kind of odd - and definitely pink.  Does Ciwt like them or has she just been under house arrest for so long her sensibilities have turned pink?

 Like her living room

                  and her coverlet (with kitten advent calendar -even! -sent by friend)

 And the sky outside her window

Three Cheers to Three Actors --- Day 6/286

Walk: AMC Van Ness (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Distance: 1 mile (without immolizer!), sit for a whole movie, lst bus, lst escalator, lots of exercises seemingly more bendy. Happy Thanksgiving to Ciwt

One reviewer Ciwt read said it well: It would hardly be fair to call this [role of Mildred] one of her finest performances because, frankly, when is Frances McDormand ever not great?  The marvelous thing is that McDormand is matched by Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.  Some viewers actually feel Harrelson's performance is better than McDormand's, and Rockwell's role is so fluid it is hard to imagine how he grounded himself enough to play it.  Ciwt suggests you go see for yourself; besides the acting Billboards is a complex, highly unpredictable, quirkily American movie.