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Meditation and yoga have all been about boundaries and of course, that is a pertinent message at this time of year in New Orleans considering it is the time for excess – we refer to king cake weight, to having to take a night off from drinking, to endless contemplation of costumes – sometimes we need to say no right in the thick of things. Knowing my boundaries has been a challenge because I didn’t…
I spoke with a friend of mine today about relationships and how my approach to them in the past has been wrong but improving. My coping mechanism for things that weren’t going my way was to run the other way. Then I started hanging around to see what was next. This isn’t to short change romance, but the fact of the matter is over 50 if you find someone you are in harmony with, you…
Can anyone from New Orleans watch this video and not get chills about evacuating or complete annihilation? It made me think of all the hurricane preparedness and what to take when you gotta go – the funny thing was for the Federal Flood I took nothing and that became the theme – nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
This year I know what we are doing for Valentine’s Day – we’re celebrating it. Flowers in the vase, red wine to be opened, a beautiful Chilean seafood stew for a late night dinner with candles. Tin and I have said Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone we could think of while doing our Monday routine and so here is Dusty to sing you a Valentine’s Song but as it gets later into the night, perhaps…
I don’t know anybody who watched the Grammy’s last night who was not entertained – Mick Jagger strutted and performed a Solomon Burke tune (read: yo for you), Eminem & Rihanna singing Love The Way You Lie and just watching Eminem stroll out and start rapping as if that is the only form of communication he knows (powerful), but my absolute favorite was the old school performance by Bruno Mars with B.o.B and Janelle Monae…
I ran into a friend who is going through a rough patch after finding out about infidelity – over the speakers “I will survive” came on – later I saw a sign that said “SECOND CHANCES ARE APPRECIATED.”
What a gorgeous day to run a marathon! Not. I already ran a marathon, right after 9/11 in Portland, Oregon – been there, done that. I have no idea why people decide to do it again once it can be checked off your list. However, it is a gorgeous day and a day that again defied control – I did get to spin class after making French toast for T & T2 – then I…
The theme of last night was Just Go With It as we headed out to see Biutiful with Javier Bardem only to get to the theater and find out they had changed the time till 11PM – first, who would go see this movie at 11PM? So we instead just had to buy a ticket and walk in. I bought The Roommate, not really aware of what it was, but we were knee deep in…
I took a stroll over to the NOMA to see the Zen Monk Haikun exhibit and was welcomed by the Japanese drummers outside. Today was lovely, a golden light from the sun, redbuds in bloom, and a laziness that almost felt like Sunday accompanied me. The exhibit repeated often that Haikun is the master of the last 500 years. What is the use Of cherishing life in spring? Its flowers only shackle us to this…
Last night we took Tin to go see Abel Raises Cain at Cafe Rose Nicaud, only Tin decided he was not going to cooperate with the adult plans from the get-go – first he didn’t fall asleep for his nap until 5:30 (vs 3:30) and that was because he had three big diapers to change; then when we got to the cafe, he sat down with his dinner we had brought and proceeded to throw…