Weblog De Fuego: Not Foreign. Born in L.A. Valley Boy. Not Prejudice. Half Jewish.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Not Foreign

Even though I have a foreign sounding
name, I was born in Los Angeles Ca.
my skin is white and my eyes are blue.
I am not a skin head nor am I prejudice.

I have lived in & out of Mexico my
whole life, and my parents and brother
still live there. I speak perfect English
and Spanish, and my whole family is
bilingual. I was an L.A. valley boy
who now lives in San Diego County.

I am not Mexican American.
I am American American. I have Spanish
blood from Spain in me from my Moms
side, and Jewish blood in me from my
Dads side. See HalfJew.com

True Creative Genius

"Though this psychopathology is not for one to

wish, one interesting association with bipolar

disorder is the creativity of those afflicted.

This is not the normal creativity experienced

by the above-average people (on the scale of

creativity). This creativity is the creative genius,

which is so rare, yet an inordinate percentage of

the well-known creative people were/are afflicted

with manic depression. Among the lengthy list are:

(writers) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,

Sylvia Plath; (poets) William Blake, Sara Teasdale,

Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson; (composers)

Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky. Psychiatrists, realizing

a connection greater than coincidence, have performed

studies all over the world in an attempt to establish a

link between bipolar disorder and creativity."

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"A just and wise society would care for its artists. A just and wise society would recognize that on the margins of its norm live its geniuses, and though they are strange and sometimes difficult, they must be cared for, for they are the treasures of our time, and they produce the treasures of our time."

Cary Tennis