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Sat on the back steps this afternoon – I voluntarily sat on the back steps – meaning that I was eating a snack and was coming back to my office and I was compelled to sit on the back steps. Must be fall. I sat on my terrace today. I actually went out the door of my office and pulled the chair into the shade and read a trade journal. I was on the terrace…
A dear friend told me “change requires sacrifice” today – it’s a spin on beauty requires sacrifice, which she overheard a mother telling her young daughter who was whining about too tight shoes (yikes!). But who likes change? No one. I mean some thrive on change and some force change to happen, but change is always disruptive (and I don’t use disruptive as a pejorative term). The thing is I got two calls today –…
I’m sure the food chain is going to break down – exposé like Pollan’s are not the only reason. How about zillions of eggs recalled from Iowa? We bought our milk from Smith’s Creamery at the Green Market on Saturday – it is from Washington Parish where my grandmother ran a dairy farm when I was a kid. We’ll get our eggs from them too – they were out this Saturday. Instead of plowing into…
Tin’s favorite thing in the world right now is the moon – everything is the moooooooooon. He got to see the moon in all its fullness last night as we were waiting for T to get home from her first night of class before going to sleep and we sat on the porch and watched the big old moon in the ink dark sky and the honeyed hues it cast on the bayou last night.…
There are times when the weight of things gone by tends to drag us down. There is a great zen story of two monks walking in dense woods under an oath of silence when they happen upon a woman who has tried to climb a fence and got stuck in the barb wire. One of the monks goes to help her, and untangles her dress from the fence and soothes her with calming words as…
Today, as we were trying to decide with the nanny which corner would be where Tin would have his time-outs since he has taken to hitting when he’s frustrated or tired, and taken to fits when he doesn’t get what he wants, we settled upon the corner of the bookcase. Might be good to be right there by all those writings about life’s ups and downs. A friend sent a link to a book recently…
I tried to cram too many things into today and then I came to the conclusion that sometimes you have to push the envelope – work, friends, child, garden, dogs, partner – put all in the blender and hit GRIND. Sometimes the best place for a woman to be is out on a limb, dangling by a thread. Gotta love it.
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and that is true. Sandy at Pontchahoa Kennels where our dogs stay sometimes said that Heidi is too old to learn – she’s five. So I have given up on trying. Used to be we’d get to the corner and I’d have to work, work, work with Heidi to get her to sit while Loca performed beautifully. Now I just have decided to praise Loca…
Because of Tin’s dry skin, he more often than not gets what my mother always called a bird bath. A wet washcloth wipe down. Today I was in the park and all of the ducks and swans were by the playground making a ruckus as they dipped in an out of the water washing and preening and screeching. It’s either that time of year or they got really dirty last night. No one was talking,…