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We’re having a couple of cold days – oh boo hoo, you say, we don’t know anything about cold down here in New Orleans – well, we like it like that. We are not much for cold weather – we’ll endure heat and humid days that would knock the knees of the average human to be able to not be cold. So knowing that I have to get on a plane and go to New…
A friend stopped by today, she’s my go to friend for talking about work and she quit her job yesterday. Amazing. She had her own business for years and then she decided to go work with a start up and thought that it would be a good experience for her, but instead she realized yet again how she is not cut out for the corporate world and it’s endless round of meetings, personalities, and so…
Gal Holiday is back in town after having left for California and they played at Rock N Bowl last night. We went and had a blast. I hadn’t been to the new Rock N Bowl location and it was a little taste of Americana meets New Orleans and it was a perfect showcase for the band. They were tighter than ever and I think I danced from the time we walked in the door till…
We’ve worked out a system here where T has two nights at the coffee shop and I have a night for yoga and meditation and a night out with friends. It was hard getting used to and I have to admit at one point last night I was thinking about missing Tin since I left before he got up from his nap. I went with a friend to Three Muses and saw Luke Winslow King,…
I want to cut the chord to Cox Cable but I’m so not techy that I don’t understand even how to fix my iPod player’s connection other than jiggle the wire. I just read about a family who cut the chord and they give excellent ideas for getting quality programming at only $7 a month from Netflix. I am going to do all of this except it makes my head spin to read about it…
The yoga message is about happiness and how it is not a thing to be gotten but the getting that is happiness. So true. But the example used was Americans vs Europeans – how Americans are all about buying things they think will give them comfort (television, cars, vacation packages) while Europeans are all about pleasures to be had (sharing a meal with friends, going to hear music, watching a cultural event). I know my…
The way the world is going is towards, actually, a good place much to the surprise of those of you who read the news so often. Go looking for a hypodermic needle in a haystack and you might find one, but trying looking for the sun’s golden rays reflecting in the straw and bingo, you should call yourself lucky just for looking. There are enough people recording the evils and wrongdoings of the world, someone…
From the NYT just now: House Votes to Repeal Health Care Law The House on Wednesday voted to repeal the Democrats’ landmark health care overhaul, in a largely symbolic step that the new Republican majority said marked the beginning of an all-out effort to dismantle President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled Senate have said that they will not act on the repeal measure, effectively scuttling it. A House majority voted 245 to 189 to…
A friend was railing to me about another friend who rants on a weekly radio talk show and how it has gotten to the point where the two of them cannot have a civil conversation – this observation was spurred on by the recent killings in Tucson and the desire my friend has to change the national rhetoric away from hate and towards compassion. I told her I remember when my brother had his radio…
I’ve been doing this series of meditation classes on compassion since last week and today rather than giving ourselves over to helping someone else, it was about taking all that and giving it to yourself. An interesting concept, it was to start with a meditation on something lacking that we wished to have – inner peace, love, you name it there was a whole laundry list to choose from or you could make it up…