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Lots going on… election sighs and hoorays in sometimes the same breath. Starvation amongst the Snap crew class (which I know well) lest the Good King opens up his heart. And Thanksgiving holidays on possible hiatus till the planes run again.

In the meantime, I discovered a new film about the lungs of the world, Yanuni, by the wonderful director Richard Ladkani, a specialist in films about nature and the need to respect her, centers around Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Amazon who rises from activism to Brazil’s new Ministry of Indigenous People. Juma is a heart filled warrior who wields strength and intelligence while at the same time showing a deep emotional nature and response to all the difficulties that surround her family and her people.

As if she didn’t have enough challenges, her activist husband Hugo has the scary job of destroying illegal mining set ups up and down the Amazon. It’s a romantic and true story about two people fighting for something most of the world seems to have forgotten to protest about….. woke was made an ugly term by you know who but Juma is very awakened to how important the Amazon is to her people and to the rest of the planet.

Even before Halloween has turned the corner, Christmas is blowing in and with it the horrible problem of gift giving. Problem no more…I literally fell into an adorable gift shop that’s down a few stairs on East 53rd. The business card reads, the hunt is over– Chase the Fox, (chasethefox.com) opened by a former nurse from the south. The shop is filled with wonderful objets, from art to candles to Knick knacks you’d love to unwrap –and speaking of wrap, the owner wraps for free for each gift you buy. It smells good and you won’t want to leave, but if you do, there’s an old time dive bar named Stranglove right upstairs.