Last Twilight Recline

                                               View of my garden from under the brim of my hat ~ South Pasadena CA   July 2012 © Marissa Roth

Gave my beloved lounge chair to a friend today
Last night
Toasted the western sky with a glass of wine
Last time
I will recline in this garden so peacefully
Thanked it for its refuge

Relief to have some time again
To think and reflect and look forward
But really just time to breathe

Will be a refugee from the manic madness of modern life
For a short while

The known unknown lies ahead

One Person Crying Installation

The exhibition opened at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on August 16th, 2012, and will be up until October 18th, 2012. After so much hard work by so many people - most notably my curator Howard Spector, who wove and sequenced the images together in a most extraordinary way - the sum of 28 years of photographs and transcribed interviews, is profound.

Next stop: Well, we are working on that and should have more news in a couple of weeks!

Quintessential Los Angeles

                                                            Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles CA   August 30, 2012 © Marissa Roth (taken w/my Droid)

My friend Carol Williams and I went to Dodger Stadium last night to watch the Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks ~ they lost 4-3 ~ but it was great fun!  Looking out from Chavez Ravine at the San Gabriel Mountains to the northeast, they were purple as twilight gently settled in. Dodger Stadium is old L.A., for me, and going to a Dodger game a quintessential L.A. experience. My dad used to take me to games when I was a kid. I loved them. 

As I straddle the cusp of an enormous life transition ~ moving to Vancouver, B.C. in October ~ it was wonderful to just hang out, have a chocolate malted and a couple of Coronas, and then be wowed by fireworks as we walked to the car.