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She moved to the bayou because she wanted to live near a natural body of water, she arrived in a hurricane, literally and figuratively, and she and the house weathered the storm. She called the house her vacation home; a seven year old boy called it the LaLa. The LaLa was the end of a long journey, another adventure began almost immediately. So perhaps this is Chapter Two, but more likely all of that backstory…
I listened to some tapes a friend had brought to me earlier this year, they are those Abraham Hicks sessions that are about this woman who channels Abraham. Another friend said she didn’t like the vehicle but she liked the message and I’d have to say I agree with that notion. The whole adoration of the process is a little off-putting but the message is on track. And zen in its perspective. Interestingly enough I…
Just the facts – alopecia is when your body has been shocked into an auto immune deficient state and you lose your hair. You can lose a little or a lot or all (as I have). What may accompany alopecia is a thyroid issue – whether it is the thyroid that goes first or after or contingent no one can really say, but in general it does go hand and hand. Hypothyroidism is when your…
I spent a good deal of my day on Friday speaking to a friend about the flip side of the coin. Sort of seeking the tragic optimism that Frankl writes about in his Man’s Search for Meaning – of seeing meaning in the tragic. A few years ago I had asked a friend who had been raped what she had come to find as a way of explaining it all to herself and she said,…
Bayou Boogaloo is going on down the bayou and it looks like it has expanded even more this year, but I’m just not in a festival mood. Know what sort of mood I’m in – a sit on the beach and stare at the horizon sort of mood. Thank god it is almost summer and we are about to fly off to never never land. I think I’m just a little festival’d out this year…
The days are getting longer and hotter but that just means summer is around the corner, or actually standing on the corner peaking around the telephone pole. I was walking to City Park and stopped to talk to my new neighbor who bought the historic house on the corner – he was bringing down an enormous pecan tree (he wasn’t, the tree company was) because it was rotten. Yes those pecan trees grow gigantic but…
What do you want to look at? Yesterday, I was riding around with a friend looking at possible trees to replace the fallen palm in the side yard. I think brugmansia or angel’s trumpet (horn of plenty) is the answer. But as we drove around and looked at other gardens, down a side street of the Bywater came a girl on a bike carrying a large gleaming brass tuba. We had just been talking about…
I went to walk the dogs in City Park this morning but not, of course, at first having a conversation about the front porch rotting off and why it needs to be replaced with something very expensive and why wood was a poor choice and why the person who built it used the wrong nails and on and on and on. And I get nasty now in my responses – really? the person who built…
I went to walk the dogs today in City Park and a friend/neighbor was on her way there and so we joined forces and did a major walky talky – she’s older and her child is grown but it doesn’t mean her mothering has ended as she is now a grandmother with lots to do. But where we are is familiar – looking at the rest of our life which would most likely span a…