ACT2: The Backstory. The Yellow Pad Sessions. Page 169. My newly “divorced” self in my late mid-twenties at the “Flophouse” which made room for every kind of young artist needing a place to "flop at" temporarily, on their way to their radical, new life calling.
ACT2: The Backstory. The yellow Pad Sessions. Page 171. Meet Amparo The Bachelorette
Soon after meeting Hal the DJ Guy he took me for a “home town visit” to meet his parents in East Texas; his mother took this picture of us in her living room.
ACT2: The Backstory. Amparo’s Prologue: The Price of Admission. Page 179. The giant drive in movie screen that sits like a towering artist’s easel in the middle of a field near my South Texas hometown.
ACT2: The Backstory. Entering San Diego, Pop. 4,488 Page 184. The little nothing creek that turned into a roaring, out of control Mississippi River on August 3, 1970.
ACT 2. The Backstory. The Ghost House. Page 202. At some point, the “ghost house” collapsed years after we had lived there. It has since been reconstructed.
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ACT 2. The Backstory. Cocks Have Claws and Wings to FlY: Page 208. My mother with the father of her child, David Gonzalez at the 50th celebration of her parents 50th wedding anniversary.
ACT 2. The Backstory. Cocks Have Claws and Wings to FlY: Page 208. My step-father David Gonzalez rarely went anywhere without his guitar.
ACT 2. The Chickpea And Her Cook.Page 210. This photo was taken at my LA goodbye party, the week-end before I moved back to Austin to start my MFA in Creative Writing at the Texas Center for Writers, then called the Michener Center for Writers. Joining me in Austin soon after, Vinnie had to leave his daughter for a time with his ex-wife in Los Angeles.
ACT 2. The Backstory. The Chickpea And Her Cooks. Page210. What Vinnie Caggiano performed on the strings was always awe-inspiring, helping us attract world class players like this LA combo.
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ACT 2. The Backstory. The Soul Agreement Prophecy. Page 219. At this point, I did not yet know that the older “Mediator Friend” in my prophetic dream had a name: NEEM KAROLI BABA.
ACT 2. The Backstory. The Spirit of ’76. Page 229. When I visited with my high school classmates at my 30th high school reuntion, my initial response was “why are everyone's parents here!?” The decades made most of us look like our elders! My beloved cousin & best friend Gigi Lopez is pictured in the bottom row, fourth from the left.
ACT 2. The Backstory. I Will Tell You Mine If You Tell Me Yours. Page 231.
The couch where I used to love playing my “round and round, up and down” games with myself. Pictured next to my older sister Imelda is my brother Guero. Looking on, is my mother’s uncle Alonso Lopez.
ACT 2. The Backstory. WRAPPING UP THE HOME MOVIE. A MIX'D TAPE. Getting rid of “the stuff” of our old lives, the garage sale made space for the new family unit to bond.
