(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
To copy a headline from a friend’s food blog – here is the Grand Market in Cadiz today (and every day):
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A typical day in Cadiz
We are staying on Benjumeda Street, which is in the center of Cadiz and flanking us on all sides are plazas. San Antonio is a breath away, Fragella a few blocks, Mina down the street, and Mentidero is down the block. We strolled over to Plaza Mentidero yesterday for a goodbye lunch with Alejandro who left by train early evening. This plaza has more of a working class feel than most of the other ones…
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Friends in right places
So before we left New Orleans, my friend Lara Lester gave me a massage for free – not just any massage mind you but a deep in the hip joint get it all loosey goosey type of massage that is still being felt so many miles away. She also gave me some head decorations and a tip to wear my party panties whenever possible. But wait there’s more – she also gave me (us) mustaches…
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Four legged greeting card
On the topic of riches, it’s amazing to me that the more I move away from the life I had known, the more the life that opens up is filled with abundance. Take for instance, the fact that going away from our four legged family members has always been such an issue – trying to find that right person who will care for your pets the way you do, who doesn’t cost more than what…
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Oh for the love of creation
I don’t even remember now how Anne Flournoy’s Louise Logs came across my radar, but how happy I was to meet Louise and Anne when it happened. Then through Anne came Mudd and I knew instantly that Mudd and I would collaborate one day. Little did I know it would be her and Tin. Mudd’s on an adventure to find her creative spark (along the way creating like crazy) and in a turn of events…
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Rituals for daily life
One of the things I love most about Waldorf and its philosophy is reinforcing the need for simplicity in the lives of children. And the utmost importance of rituals and rites of passage. Every day when they have their lunch at the nursery, they light a candle and similarly, we have tried to make a ritual of lighting a candle around bedtime to create a ritual around the wonderful time of going to sleep. We…
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Boys of summer
Alejandro arrived from Madrid and is giving Tin a much needed injection of boy time. Yesterday, they played soccer in the plaza and today they’re off for boy’s day on the beach – and a much needed break for mommy. Yay to boys!
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Fiesta!
We have been having a party almost every night. Saturday night it was the arrival of our friend from Madrid, Sunday it was Zahara and summer friends, and last night it was some colleagues from the summer program here in Cadiz. You don’t need a reason to have a party in Spain and Tin said he would like to have five parties this week, and we are well on our way. We made mussels in…
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What you won’t see at the playground
An artist friend of mine in San Francisco did this fabulous series of playground structures – in one there was a slide breaking through the fog – it was just magic. The playground down Benjumeda in Parque Genoves has structures that remind me of her paintings, and more, they have dinosaurs. While there does seem to be a lot of dinosaurs popping up around Spain, the one thing I feel almost certain about is no…
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The coast restoreth
On Sunday, from the get go, there were signs and portents – a guy walking by with a tee shirt that read “Don’t worry be happy!” – a billboard that said, “Today is the best day of my life!” and so it was that the day was crafted around this idea – we caught the bus early this morning to go to Zahara de los Atunes and as soon as we arrived, I felt like…