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Today Tatjana gave me my birthday gift early – the gift of friendship – a ticket to Nantucket. Six years ago, my dear friend asked me to join her and her friends in Nantucket and I went, even though I was bit hesitant to be trapped on an island with girls I had never met before. That trip proved to be an awakening – I grew addicted to their friendship, to the annual pilgrimage, to…
I realized that I have become utterly flawed by a few comments that I am want to say when offered the opportunity. Comment #1 – San Francisco made me ambitious. Having moved there I realized I could not be the bohemian I had thought I would be but instead had to join the rat race because it was do or die there. To afford to live and partake in the rich mercantile lifestyle of a…
Okay, I felt like I needed a night out and I got one! Or I crammed about twenty into one last night. We went to the classic M&M party and boogied down into the wee hours and now I’m paying the price. Tin woke up before we did. I couldn’t get to Zumba because the Crescent City Classic run has blocked all streets leading there. So here are my thoughts: 1) I’ve been sneaking a…
I’m about to untether and go outside to walk the dogs and see what this beautiful day is all about, but I wanted to pass along a TED video that Rev. Haller suggested last night in his talk – it is simply amazing:
Today the sun is out in all its glory and yes the earth does revolve around the sun, so the sun didn’t necessarily come up, but still it’s a day that is a day for being grateful. A friend was running passed the house and stopped for a water – “Your house is amazing!” she said as she was thanking me. My neighbor said, “You won’t be happy anywhere else.” Amazing, isn’t it?
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” Joseph Campbell
I cut out a Joseph Campbell saying a long time ago and its applicability to my life at any given time never ceases to amaze me: “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell Yesterday, as the sun was setting I strolled down to the zen center to meditate and hear a talk by the Rev. Paul Haller,…
I’m coming around the bend again, she’ll be riding six white horses when she comes, when she comes, okay so that is not what is happening this time around, but I recognize all the dissonance that I am now on a first name basis with I take a step forward and get knocked to the left, knocked to the right, and I turn to do the hokey pokey only before I can return I’ve lost…
I wonder about lifetime warranties and what will happen to them as uncertainty and flux become more the norm. If you believe in a lifetime warranty, I have some swamp land I’d like to sell you.
Or are there? So yesterday I was driving and I had a conversation in my head that went something like this with my neighbor: Self: I was thinking about whether we should move to long term rentals up front and spoke with someone and they said that when people rent from you long term they tend to get very proprietary and very demanding. Neighbor: Well have you thought about getting a job? Self: I knew…