It’s a real moment of restoration, placing Indigenous talent in these roles, spotlighting their humanity. “It happens to be that I’m carrying this honor right now … (but) it’s all so long overdue. “It’s what I’ve been saying this whole time and I still absolutely feel it,” she said. She’s had both time and opportunity to articulate what feels historic about this moment, and remains just as passionate. The accolades for the 37-year-old actor’s performance have been flowing since the film came out in October, and she won a Golden Globe earlier this month. Gladstone’s nomination was hardly a surprise. “’I want to see your and dad’s reactions!’ And sure enough, I could kind of hear them starting to say my name, but then it just got drowned out by my parents cheering, and my dog started barking.” “’Flip the camera around,’” she says she told her mother. This image released by Apple TV+ shows Lily Gladstone, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "Killers of the Flower Moon." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple TV+ via AP) She asked them not to show her the TV screen, but instead to focus on their own faces. Meanwhile Gladstone’s parents were FaceTiming her as the nominations were announced. Once things wrap up, I think I’m gonna load up and drive out to Fairfax and Gray Horse and pay my respects there.” “I wanted to be as close to Mollie Kyle and her family as I could be. “I decided that I wanted to be on the Osage reservation, should this news come in today,” Gladstone said in an interview shortly after receiving her historic nomination for best actress, the first Native American so honored. And that somewhere was not home, watching on TV, but in Oklahoma with the Osage community, where the real-life version of her character lived and where Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is centered. Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be somewhere special when the Oscar news came. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. I will say, it feels good to finally be settled. I look forward to sharing more of this journey with you as my path unfolds. I’m uploading photos from the last few days in this post and I have uploaded my Patrons only Naked Poem reading on my Video page. I try to shred raw and real moments with you beautiful people. I tend to get a tad nervous on video, so I stumbled on a couple of my words, but decided to stick with the original recording so it’s more authentic and unpracticed. I asked my good friend and blog reader “R Jr.” to help me choose a focus for today’s video. I managed to sneak a few moments for myself. Today the drip edge and membrane for the living roof on the dojo are being installed. I am forever grateful to everyone who made this possible. He lovingly calls my studio the “Goddess Dojo”. My brother-in-law and my sister built the arbutus cabin and my longtime friend and lover who is an experienced builder with a focus on natural and sustainable building did the lion’s share of the work, on my studio. If you have ever taken on a building project before you’ll know how daunting it can be. So now that both spaces are complete I will likely create content in my studio and blog in my living space (Arbutus Cabin). You’ll be happy to know (if you like reading my blog that is, lol) that my kitchen/living room space (photos to come) has Wifi. In addition, because my new studio/bedroom/glass house is off grid, there’s no Wifi. I apologize for turning my energy inwards but I have been a very busy woman. What a journey the last couple weeks have been. “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness…Home is where the heart is.” – Unknown
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