Ruby Red Slippers video is here!

filmed,edited, and directed by the one and only Rose Garguilo from the album” Across the Hemisphere” 10 years ago, I took my pre -teen son to see the Oregon Symphony perform the music of the Hunger Games - titled a Hero's Journey. 

After the performance, I wondered about my pre-teen heroine's journey -who or what inspired me down that path . Growing up in post-Watergate South Florida, as a latch key kid, most of my memories of powerful women were of sitcoms - I dream of Jeannie, Bewitched... Magical women dominated by men who never let them use their powers even just to clean the house- Ugh. I searched further in my psyche and remembered the Wizard of Oz's Dorothy finding intelligence, courage, and love all within... by just following that yellow brick road.