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Interview with self: Interviewer: I’ve noticed you’re more motivated to give up cigarettes, exercise, and work on projects. When did this change? Self: I’ve grown tired of myself, the constant whining, the lethargy, the no end in sight mode. I was coughing like a 40 year seasoned smoker, I was tired just trying to lift Tin, and work, I was so meh over work I was beginning to fantasize about a life without work rather…
My lucky number has always been four, and this morning as I was walking the dogs through City Park, I was lost in abstract thought, grooving to the smells of some tree or bush when I saw a lucky penny. I stopped to pick it up after checking to make sure it was on heads and right then four green parrots flew from the ground up that I hadn’t noticed. I said to myself –…
When I took Tin for his 3-year check up the doctor asked if he is telling stories. And I said yes, we tell stories a lot. She asked, does he tell them? “Yes,” I said. There is no doubt in my mind that if you read to a child their world will enlarge. I remember when a client of mine told me he didn’t read fiction and I said, “Why not?” He said he was…
Someone’s father is home from the hospital, someone had a baby, someone is pregnant, someone just found out he is going to be a father, someone celebrated a 70th birthday, someone is in the hospital waiting to come home, someone is … I started working with the life coach yesterday and she asked me to visualize a giant outdoor billboard whose message would reach many people – what would it say? My response: “It’s going…
Last night, friends came over and we ate risotto with the last of the truffles from Istra, that’s because Tatjana is bringing home more. It was nice to gather at the table with friends, but I did overindulge in just about everything – shades of not having had a proper lunch and feeling starved by the time we sat to eat. It all led to a restless night, where I kept getting up thinking it…
I came up with a life’s purpose today: I am the beacon of light that inspires others to become self-actualized. And now to design the blueprint for that to manifest.
Before I sign off into my night death to reawaken into the life that I inhabit, I thought of Tom Waits singing I Wish I Was In New Orleans and this is because a couple I saw on our walk home from the grocery store today said they are leaving New Orleans again because the Universe had pointed them away (again) and I know how most of us here are always leaving New Orleans at…
Today, I was on my way home listening to WWOZ and the music was Evan Christopher’s The Remembering Song from his album of the same name. The DJ came on afterwards and said, “I ran into Evan the other morning at Louis Armstrong Park and he had his godson on his shoulders and they had just been speaking with Herbie Hancock.” HIGH LOW – Before Tin was coming back from school I cleaned out the…
I was reading a book review in the New York Times of Anne Enright’s Making Babies and this was priceless: It’s actually not that easy to destroy your baby, Enright concludes, and she offers a perversely comforting thought for the worrywarts among us — usually we’re the ones who need protecting. “You must always check a silence,” she writes, “not because the baby might have choked, but because it is in the middle of destroying…
I found out who the mysterious C is, who left me flowers by the site of my natural disaster, and it all made perfect sense. It came from my neighbor around the corner who was spreading some love around the neighborhood. A mitzvah for her, for us. Today on the way home from Franklinton, we got off at our exit and a car was broken down with a women standing by the trunk speaking to…