Ernest Hemingway's Key West
Hemingway Pissed Here which being a notorious alcoholic doesn't surprise me and I suppose white privilege is that if you''re a male author who's famous for his machismo writing is that you can get away with urination in public and not get arrested. If you're contemplating writers and wealth and comparing the two writers who fled to Paris after WWII and wrote about what is now called the lost generation. Both books The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby were contemplations on that time of moral bankruptcy and spiritual disillusion are timeless and in fact I would say that we're in that same time again where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting what they always get poorer and our artists and writers of today are appreciated and under funded unless they write commercially successful books. I write for catharsis and contemplate these deep subjects having married dynastic wealth and having a father addicted to M.P.I. money power and influence which he could steal from a Falk marriage trust, so I guess the larger theme is Oligarchs and kleptocrats, and having been an outcast member of both I would say I prefer to be the observant writer rather than the participant in the crazy and speaking of crazy? Contemplate Hemingway. He ended in deep depression with death by suicide so the writer and my family and my ex husband are a cautionary tale of the ills of wealth.
Shannon Falk
1/22/20229 min read
Two times in Key West in Five years? Cruise through once revisit to contemplate Hemingway.
In 2018 I visited Key West for the once in a Lifetime "Willitts" Vacation. I wore black because I felt their (my bio family's) dark presence.
Second time around? I brought my little bitch for some unfinished business.
Yes 2018 Cruising is really glamy, just don't figuratively pack your Willitts Family, or you're in for a guilt trip.
Ask Hemingway the guy who wrote in Key West about "The Rich"
If Hemingway "Pissed" here? Maybe he's friends with the Willitts Lol
If one must suffer Earnest Hemingway? Don't do it lightly. Find yourself in Key West pondering the wealthy? Ignore the depressing old "manly" man who shot himself dead in Ketchum Idaho in 1961 & think of the superior writer who got crushed by the Hollywood studio "system" in California where died at the young age of 44 of a heart attack a recovered alcoholic of 4 years. Yes I'm talking about Fitzgerald. I much prefer the "Great Gatsby" over the "Sun Also Rises" which I find inordinately boring. The endless run on sentences lack depth. Fitz? Deep, perceptive, spot on descriptions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said it better-Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. Now that is Michael Falk to a T, as in middle name Thomas. The guy born in New York, with daddy's money who grew up in Florida and wanted to reinvent himself as a little nobody in California. A lot like his hero the Zero Bob Dylan. I mean if you're born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth Minnesota (that's Bob Dylan) then you are nothing like Michael Falk. Your parents were born Jewish immigrants and middle class. Sounds like William "Guido Willitts who wished he was Michael Falk who resembles Robert Durst. He left New York because he didn't want to be "Robert Durst". Another NYC Real Estate heir who famously said of the people he met in Prison that at least they had earned whatever got them there. What got Bill Willitts rich in Oregon? The Michael and Shannon Falk Marriage trust of 2001. Talk about a bunch of grifters. Yep that's the Willitts.
Both times I was in Key West I was staying in nicer accommodations than my family's luxury lodge the Five Pines, which is kinda funny to me. I mean my brother runs a "Luxury Lodge" in Oregon and likes to camp? My daughter who went to live with him (my brother Greg) after she was sexually abused by my ex husband (her father) Michael Falk. I think the first and last call I got from Greg about a "problem" with my daughter Zoe? Greg called me from a motel (embarrassed) and I quote "She keeps picking up the phone in the room trying to dial room service". Zoe wasn't the problem, that's Greg. I still think, now as I did then. I raised Zoe as a working travel writer who writes about luxury destination hotels. What did you expect? I mean dude you have like +1000 reviews on Trip Advisor for the Five Pine Lodge, or is it a "campus" in Sisters Oregon. Oh brother. If you stay in motels when you travel? Why do you run a luxury brand? Why don't you buy a freakin KOA campground, or do something you really like? Why would you stay in Oregon to run my father's objectification of his five children? Frankly, after my nephew's suicide? Because the hotel logo is supposedly a Pine tree for each child of my father? I gave my brother a piece of my mind in 2020 on the two year "anniversary" of my nephews death with this notice.
"Stop objectifying me. I'm not a bent pine in your hotel's logo. Rename the hotel something real. Call it Four Pines and a fucking rainbow". I would add now. If you don't enjoy luxury hotels from all over the world, if you aren't a travel writer, plus you don't fly or book first class yourself? Why are you running a "luxe" brand in Oregon?
Brother, maybe if you run a "luxury" brand hotel in Oregon? You should be the one who took his children to luxury hotels? If Zoe dialed room service in a motel? That's because with me, she'd ordered room service in 5 star hotels all over the world before you became her Oregon "Guardian".
Who the hell chooses to continue running his father's lie? My father didn't dare to dream anything. He copied the Lewis and Clark Hotel in Portland Oregon. If that hotel burned down in 1905? Some wannabe luxe brand built 153 miles away, over the McKenzie Pass into Sisters Oregon? Were you over-developed a property by the same name using your New York sister's 2001 California Shannon and Michael Falk Marriage Trust to build your post Arizona, Oregon apocalypse? Maybe you update your TripAdvisor with the hypocrisy renamed. You should tell a true story. If I were the owner? I'd suggest guests drive on Route 7 "Suicide 7" A Far bigger dream than using a Shannon and Michael Falk Marriage Trust to build your "luxury" Oregon hotel, oh & tell the other "developer" Curt Kallberg your constructed lie's a mess. Almost like you profiteered off your sisters CA divorce to further your OR interest in a job you don't even like?
I will no longer co-sign on the lie. Nothing good comes of being born wealthy or playing rich. I've spent my life shielding my children from the truth, but like death? Truth too is inevitable. Like I said "Unfinished Business".
My Falk children? Born into a class where they're entitled to be protected by their mother. Is not that simply a "Human Right"?
Excuse me if my views on wealth are a little tilted, but when you use a 2001 Falk Marriage Trust to further your Willitts interests in Oregon? It cost a life, and frankly? You're the one's who are bent.
Gazing off into the sea on the beach at the Waldorf Astoria? I will say this about the Willitts and the Hemingway's. Great at covering up the past. I mean what's worse? A wedding in the high desert of Oregon or a side street in Key West? I guess both families are great at profiteering off of weddings Lol
I find it rather weird that anyone getting married in Florida would choose the house of a miserable drunk, who pined for Hadley the first wife he'd lost in Paris and blew out his brains in Idaho and his "family"? Yep they fought over his estate?
Truth about families and marriages? None are perfect, but those constructed on lies? There's truly a Scottish Mental Health Arts "Festival" apply titled Running From Crazy: Exploring the Hemingway family legacy of mental illness. Give it enough time? You might be able to hold one in Oregon about my Willitts "Family"
The Falkin' Truth in Florida? There's been seventy years of crazy running around trying to "Conserve" One another for control of you guessed it, money. My father's not original. Samuel "Fortune" Falk? His brains literally fried from ECT in Florida where he was conserved to his wife Gertrude Falk, and then you have the "Brothers Falk" running all over themselves trying to conserve my Mother in Law Gertrude Falk. You want crazy? Look at the Falk nuts.
What a couple of dirty old men did to one little old lady.
30 years apart? Gertrude Falk and I share the same heavy August hand. I wasn't wheel chair bound. Her tormenters a Falk stepson his wife & her own son. For me? My father Bill Willitts and his lawyer Brian Witt
I felt for my mother in law having to go it alone. I was lucky (or smart) when my family out west tried the same trick. I had friends from California to New York to vouch for my mental health, and so it was only a 4 deay expidition to to hell.
Don't abuse the mental health of a woman in Seneca Falls New York. Alice Paul made it across the street to ratify The 19th amendment might tell you the truth about the crazy accusations in New York
Because I had a good friend from California who knows all about the cooperative douche between the Willitts sadistic narcissist and the Falk Sociopath, and the inter generational sexual abuse of myself and my daughter, the mortgage fraud scheme my ex husband and stepson Johnathan Falk(Just because you change your last name to he to human doesn't make you one) and my friend from California reported my abuse, describing my family as "diabolical" and so so now the factual evidence and 4 days of describing my decades of abuse at the hands of the Willitts Falk and the inhumane? It' s now part of my New York official record, and in the end? I guess thank you
Maybe a thank you is in order. It's official your narcissistic abuse caused my C-PTSD
You "Prey" for me? It's called a "Freudian Slip" ask a psychiatrist Bill Willitts. You are a predator. Of course he doesn't have an address in 2022, apparently the whole town of sisters "belongs" to him. Narcissism 101. It's an old Florida Trick you stole from the Falk's.
I was lucky that the Syracuse hospital, phoned "loved ones" about my mental health were given facts. Told my family is diabolical my ex is a diagnosed sociopath, and so I spent my time talking about childhood sexual abuse. How fun is that Lol.
After I spent several days researching Broward County probate documents my mother in law's death wasn't sitting well, and so I headed over to the medical examiners with her death certificate.
Florida Falks are different from Oregon Willitts "Designs" only one is truly dynastic wealth. You won't finds names on streets or buildings. If it all sounds glamorous? Try scandalous.
Difference is between a couple trips down Florida way? I'm not flying, or celebrating with Cigars. That I leave to the Willitts attorney Brian Witt in Oregon. Don't mess with Falk women.
I spent many days inside 805 Hillcrest in Hollywood FL
I remember all the crazy games you played with my mother in law's head which you tried to repeat on Shannon Falk.
Don't mix money and mental health. That's a deadly and dangerous game.
