clare of assisi is a patron saint of television, fair weathers and far sights.

when i first moved to nyc i lived with clare and nitzevet in a sunny apartment off the myrtle-broadway station. clare is an earnest, urgent, and hardworking filmmaker. like nitzevet, clare wants a brownstone in park slope. she loves deeply and dances to movie-music in our kitchen. i first knew her as one of the thiasus.

wine-drunk, watching girls with clare and nitzevet in our basement, I've never felt further from the trajectory of their two lives. but i was happy, and i was happy for them.