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The weird thing is that as I was walking to Jazz Fest this morning with friends they said it was odd to see me without Tin and so began the first day of Jazz Fest – who let the moms out – woof woof woof. There wasn’t any particular band or performer I was interested in seeing but we did go see an interview with Jason Berry and Senn Kuti – my favorite take away…
Last night, I went with a friend to see so much music that my head is still spinning like a record this morning. We started at Hi Ho to see the Stooges Brass Band and then walked across the street to the ALLWAYS Lounge to see the Panorama Jazz Band and then back across to see the Stooges again and then back across to see Slavic Soul Party. The Stooges Brass Band is insane, it’s…
Pediatrician’s office: “Leave those lizards alone. That is where she put them to sleep and she wants them there.” [mother talking to her son about the plastic lizards that another child had tucked in a hole] Sandbox: Tin: No I won’t give you this boat. Friend: You’re breaking my heart. Tin: I don’t like that. Friend: You say that but you don’t mean that. Tatjana: There is a guy coming to class each day to…
A wise man told me decades ago that they blow the horn in battle to charge and to retreat but it’s up to us individually to know which path to follow. Recently I stepped down from a lot of extracurricular activities to focus on rewriting my script which has been stuck in CHARGE!!!!! mode for quite some time. Retreating has never been in my vocabulary but right now it is the note I am heeding.…
You ever feel as if you are just having the same conversation endlessly? And that words are just getting thrown around because they are familiar and have been used before. That is what life for sometimes feels like – I feel like I’m having 24/7 deja vu: the conversations are recycled, the words are stripped of intention and therefore lose 80% of their meaning, and I myself have nothing new to add. Those are the…
The other night I had a dream that I was chatting with a friend while naked. Who knows? But, the point is that an interloper was trying to inject negativity into the scene and I was taken aback that this person could be not only negative all the time, but invade my dream with her negativity. Shoo duppy shoo. Which brings me to the Marley movie that has me listening over and over again to…
While walking the dogs this morning I ran into a neighbor and learned that they were set upon hard times financially and I said to her, “Well, I have been saying woe is me, but I think I’m changing my refrain to woe is us.” She’s pulling a kid out of private school and sending her to public. Then I took Tin to the doctor and after we had discussed everything about Tin – tall…
There is increasing evidence that multitasking makes for chaos not better work. Since WWII women have been flooding the workforce no longer content to be unappreciated as stay at home mothers. Yet today I caught up with a good friend who has built a very successful career in PR and she said the reality is that you can’t do both. She said when she tries to do both, everyone and thing suffers. So if this…
A group of us went to the late night screening of Marley, a movie by Kevin MacDonald, who also did The Last King of Scotland. The film was incredible, the artist transcendent. Coming on the heels of having finished the Jobs book, if I were to stop here, I would say that all great men have shadowy but pillar women in the background, neglected and out of wedlock children on the sideline, heavily regimented patterns…
People have been commenting on my talent for scarves and I have to admit I’m someone who could never even put a barrette in my hair and here I am creatively learning new ways to dress the head. I am a firm believer that given an opportunity everyone learns something new and so that is why life is constantly throwing you these boomerangs – to keep you a student. I was at the Zen center…