July 5, 2008
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(Note- as of
July 2009 she was still alive. I checked online, and she has a Facebook fan
page)
Julia
Vinograd: So what do you think of my book Street Cannibals now? Would you have
bought it on the street?
me: yes.
JV: was it
accurate?
me: yes
JV: was I ahead
of my time always thinking forward?
me: yes.
JV: you stole
the bubbles idea from me—it was I who had infected you.
(ed - at Children's Hospital where I volunteered, I used to blow bubbles for the children being 'stitched up' in the ER. They used to scream with terror because they were strapped onto 'Papoose Boards' to hold them down. Somehow, the bubbles always worked. It was magic to see them smiling while the E.R. doc sewed them up. I wore a small vial of them around my neck at all times.)
me: were you
ever a mother?
JV: Of my body?
No. Of my spirit to the masses—yes. I was “earth mother’ of sorts.
me: I was
afraid of you.
JV: That tells
you a lot huh? (about yourself) A bubble –blowing street lady overweight.
me: yes.
JV: I had a
previous engagement.
me: to marry?
JV: yes. I
didn’t want to be anyone else’s wife.
me: It didn’t
do me much good.
JV: Let me tell
you something. There are ways and there are times (she looks at me earnestly) I
did it my way when it was my time. Why do you wait honey?
me: because I
am afraid. The one I am attracted to is somehow not right.
JV: It is
right. Open it—your heart. Not--'open it close to him'. Open it ONLY for him. Can
you do that, honey?
me: yes.
JV: It is
right. It is right. I wanted to talk to you about something-about this doctor
thing-it is not all it’s cracked up to be. Never let your spirit rest on ‘thy
accomplishments’ and laurels. Always be curious and humble about the
body/spirit/flesh. With arms open and embracing. Both of you have your
assignment of the body/spirit/light. One is to love each other openly and
honestly as the night is day (sleep together). The other is to hold hands as
you walk towards the light. That will make a signal to guide others. Whatever
else is curious along the way, enjoy it and investigate it much. God has a
higher purpose for it.
me: how do you
open a heart?
JV: say quietly
under your breath ‘I open my heart to you and to you alone brother X of the
body/spirit/light” Say that under your
breath whenever you are near him. Soon it shall become second nature.
me: are you
happy?
JV: I am . I
found my rest. My life was hard on me. I might come back. But not to you, you
have your family. I want to go back to Berkeley. They way it was--so glorious,
so wonderful! Back in the day. I wanted to talk to you about something else: Blessed Mother is gloriously divine. You are blessed so much to notice her. She
loves you, like a child, like Jesus. God will take good care of you because of
it. Help others. You are worthy of your task. That is all.
God Bless you.
I believed in
God. Even though I didn’t look it. I am an angel now because of it.
The Bubble
Lady
Julia Vinograd
Poet of the
streets
God has poetry
and justice for your heart.
