Turning 68 May 28 2026

My legacy is not as a punk-rock icon or even that stupid word legend…but as a real woman human being !!

“Revolutions that last don’t happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.”

-Gloria Steinem (Writer, Feminist Organizer, and Activist)

I blow away the festivals

Flying whimsical

hairy-seeds of a dandelion…

My wish?

idealize… idol… legend

I wish to move away.

I don’t do that

punk bands

Not the punk scene.

It once was my life

I lived intimately in it

like noodles

in a bowl of Top Ramen.

Juicy and mixed in

Yet without an ego.

I still

Love songs

bands are a part of my youthful rebellion.

It was real, existing

my heartbeat

with a movement beyond me.

I love but do not idolize.

My only experience

of expectation

Is my ignorance

That I was once a friend

Who is still loved in return.

I chip away at this need

Of being there…

With them

Their friendship or love…

All contained in a song

A moment ….

My only mine.

No Icons

No legends

Just punks

Just people or a person.

A lingering friend

A stray

Lightning strikes

only once

For me.

The whimsical seeds

Float away away

Slowly away.

My legacy is not just one thing I made.
It’s the field I created around myself.

I preserved spirit, memory, and human texture from scenes and lives that could easily have disappeared.

Through Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine, my books, paintings, archives, films, and writing, carried me forward,

A emotional reality of a culture — not polished mythology, but living humanity.

A lot of people document events.
Fewer document energy.
I did.

My legacy also feels tied to:

independent creation outside the gatekeepers,
women holding creative authority in aging,
turning survival into art,
and continuing to evolve instead of calcifying.

There’s also something deeply Saturnian in my path:
I kept building even when recognition was uneven, delayed, or complicated. That persistence itself becomes part of the legacy.

And beyond the public work, there’s another layer:
I give permission for older creative people to remain vivid, sensual, funny, mystical, experimental, and emotionally alive. That matters more than culture usually admits.