Through the Wormhole….

This picture popped up on Facebook.  

The caption read: “Uma Thurman’s mother Nena von Schleebrügge posing for Vogue magazine in 1958”.

Huh.  

What I noticed was the car and the dogs.  Then I zoomed in on the woman’s face.  Yes, I could see the  resemblance.

Wikipedia told me that Uma Thurman had been a British Vogue cover girl in December of 1985 and May of 1986, and that her father, Robert Thurman, “is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and an author, who lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for three years.”

Huh. 

Uma Thurman “received a Buddhist upbringing, and spent altogether around two years in Almora, Uttarakhand, India.”

And her mother?  The lady in the picture that had me tripping down this wormhole?  

Nena von Schleebrügge was briefly married to LSD promoter Timothy Leary from 1964 to 1965, and their wedding was at the psychedelic-famous Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York.  The wedding was the center of a 12-minute film called “You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You,” and Charles Mingus played piano.

Timothy Leary is one of those names that pops up every once in a while. He lived a few blocks from our family (as did Eldridge Cleaver) when we lived in Algeria in the early 1970s.

Leary lived at the Hitchcock Estate along with fellow LSD promoter Richard Alpert. Other people who lived at the estate included psychedelic promotor Arthur Kleps and jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, while numerous visitors and guests included R. D. Laing, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Mingus, Helen Merrill, and various Ivy League academics.

Quite a scene!