Santa Ynez Street

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Michael Walker</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 52 WIDTH="982"><div> <B>"an original, deeply empathetic spiritual geography of Los Angeles" </B></div> <div> <B>-Laura E. Pérez, </B>Author of<B> </B><I><B>Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ed58020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 36 WIDTH="982"><div> <B>Santa Ynez Street</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 44 ><NOBR><div> In early fall 2000, J Michael Walker happened upon a young homeless woman on LA's </div> <div> infamous Skid Row. Their accidental friendship sowed the seeds of his story "Santa Ynez Street."</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1055 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="791" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="HSIDES" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="33" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="15" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="762"><div> Santa Ynez Street, Intro - </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="33" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 589 WIDTH="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="589" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="15" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="762"><div> <IMG SRC="3bd176c0.jpg" border=0 width="535" height="364" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="7" VSPACE="2"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Bookman Old Style" >I was standing in the lobby of a drop-in shelter for the mentally ill homeless in the heart of Skid Row. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> She was sitting in one of the grey plastic chairs lining the wall, dressed in a black blouse and beads. Frail and small with delicate features, she had the eyes of a doe.</div> <bR> <div> I noticed her immediately: she looked far too young and vibrant to be in this place, as though she had somehow confused it with the bus station a few blocks away. Perhaps she was still new at “being homeless” and not yet beaten down by it. Perhaps this was why her eyes seemed fixed on something faraway - to shut out her mistaken surroundings.</div> <bR> <div> “Excuse me,” I approached her, “Would you mind if I took your photograph?”</div> <bR> <div> Her eyes brightened, a broad smile appeared, and she replied, as though I had happened by at the most opportune moment, “I've been waiting for someone to take a good picture of me.”....</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="589" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 379 WIDTH="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="379" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="15" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="732" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="HSIDES" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 280 WIDTH="351"><div>  <object width="333" height="269"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QotZ7TIaztw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QotZ7TIaztw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="333" height=269"></embed></object>  </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="371"><div>  <object width="300" height="225"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1275813&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" /> <embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1275813&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="300" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1275813?pg=embed&sec=1275813"></a>.  </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 57 ><NOBR><div> <B>Joseph Arthur performing his song "In the Sun",</B> </div> <div> at the Glastonbury Festival, June 2000</div> <div> (A song that was an inspiration during this journey)</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>J Michael Walker reading "Santa Ynez Street"</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Times New Roman" >, </FONT></div> <div> at the <A HREF="http://www.la-ip.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.la-ip.com/"><U>Los Angeles-Idea Project</U></A> conference; </div> <div> June 2008, Barnsdall Gallery Theatre.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="379" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <B>All the Saints of the City of the Angels. 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