Bird-free and watery-light.

Guest appearance: Esther and Ethan. Both these beauties belong to my boss. They light up the restaurant like no others.



A drop-dead sushi slaveland was blessed by later visitations from two of my my all-time favourite individuals. One thousand
"merci beaucoups", Barkman and Drewber. You two were angels in the flesh that night. Chopsticks may have found their frantic way to my heart if you hadn't dropped by and heeded my commands to stay and dine...




Luke, remember when we were young? Mere bebes...




I despise goodbyes. They make me ache. So, in parting, here are a collection of words far lovelier and more profound than I could ever claim as my own. They have meant more to me over the past few years than I can even begin to articulate. And I feel as if they will only continue to speak volumes...now, later, and even in another life, when I am a cat or perhaps a Russian princess. Yes yes. Bon nuit, friends/foes/lovers. RB

THUNDER PERFECT MIND
(Poet: Unknown.
What I do know: --"Thunder Perfect Mind" is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945...and takes the form of an extended, riddling monologue, in which an immanent saviour speaks a series of paradoxical statements concerning the divine feminine nature. These paradoxical utterances echo Greek identity riddles, a common poetic form in the Mediterranean.--God bless Wikipedia.)

...For I am the first and the last.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am she whose wedding is great, and I have not taken a husband.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
I am the silence that is incomprehensible and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
I am senseless and I am wise...and establish the great ones among the small first creatures.
Come forward to childhood, and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses, for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
I am the one who is honoured, and who is praised,
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Do not hate my obedience and do not love my self-control.
But I am she who exists in all fears and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak, and I am well in a pleasant place...
I am peace,
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak, and great is my multitude of words.