Sunset, Saturday, 8 August 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Clouds apparently aren’t approaching storms but steam rising off an oncoming heat wave. Peeps just west have been sending stifled, gasping distress signals like the last telegraph transmissions from front-line outposts just as they’re overrun by an overwhelming enemy force.

Meanwhile, much farther west, in southern California, a woman named Regina Jones is writing ... and writing ... with a book due soon ... and with no idea how beautifully and naturally she writes. Regina once gave me a critical opportunity to write, and to interview some of the greatest people in the music industry.

Among the things I owe you, girl (if I may), is the truth. Let me tell you something.

YOU

HAVE

GOT

‘IT’