Barbara Walters and author-curator Regine Dubono led parallel lives.
Barbara Walters told Charlie Rose at her interview she could not separate her career life from her personal life in her book "Audition." Similarly, "Sleeping Beauty isn’t a fairy tale".
Stores.Lulu.com/reginedubonobook made a similar statement in her preface. Dubono's professional life as a curator while struggling with the care and advocacy and search for services, as well as her effort to comprehend her daughter's illness and how she might be able to help her is similar to Barbara Walters' struggle.
Dubono's daughter had mental illness (emotional impairment or immaturity) Barbara's sister mental impairment. But for both women this part of their daily lives was inseparable from the way they made their living, they were one, for they inhabited the same organism at the same time, the same cological system which constitutes the human being.
Barbara Walters, Regine Dubono like Hillary Clinton and countless of unknown women are pioneers.
This review by Sister Monk's composer-lyricist Jody Rubel, written for Dubono sums up Barbara Walter's too:
"Sleeping Beauty is a post-feminist manifesto which leapfrogs heady theor with visceral, bone chilling directedness.
In the spirit of Albert Camus, Regine Dubono's dilemmas are played out with fierce existential honesty and courage. Regine and Desiree are revealed as "the other" in an unspoken hierarchical caste system, guinea pigs of an Apollonian, corporate, hegemonic, bureaucratic system.
Yet she is represented a fight without rancor, a battle for self definition whose language creates new definitions and models for co-existing.
How can it be that in reading the inner thoughts of two women (Regine and daughter Desiree in "Desiree, A Midsummer Night Dream Medley" by Yael), entwined in the most desperate of human circumstances, who bleed so heavily into their own pain that, like the cycles of the moon, we are transported directly in participation with the rhythm of nature?
"Art gives meaning to life, especially music." Dubono fierce sense of injustice is spoken in the language of Woman, artist, mother, chemist, immigrant, proletariat, and intelligentsia.
Dubono is able to mystically fuse with the external world where everything is art and sacred to communicate this inner eternal knowledge. She faces destiny with dignity/compassion/trust.
"Sleeping Beauty Isn't a Fairy Tale" opens to the heart of feminism.
Sistermonkharem.com
Jody Rubel.
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