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I hope Tin gets to this point in his life – I hope it comes soon and lasts a lifetime – and that is to love yourself. It’s taken a long time for me to acknowledge that I love my solitude, I need to dance, and I’m never going to be thin. It is what it is. Last night, my mother in law was talking about how she can’t keep her weight on and that…
The people who have built those homes in Ft. Morgan are lucky to have a house on the beach. But the last two evenings, I’ve sat on the porch giving Tin his bottle and looking at the light on the bayou and damn, I’m lucky to live right here in this spot. We really have everything we need in our little community and if you can get your mind to focus on the light on…
While I was on the beach, my Yogi tea zen dropping said, “Happiness is nothing but total relaxation.” I think total eluded me, but pockets were accomplished. I think now that there were long walks on the beach, one morning on the porch alone with my tea and the sound of surf, and a few trips to the drugstore for a knee brace where I was alone with my thoughts. I spoke to a colleague…
When Tin came home, a lot of mothers told me that parenting is the most rewarding and challenging thing they have ever done in their lives and literally, bite my tongue, I thought to myself “challenging?” – how could anyone say this is challenging as I moved deftly from having lost a parent, acquired a son, and changed my life radically in a space of a week. I really thought challenging was because perhaps those…
What does it mean when everything stresses you out? For me it means I’m overwhelmed but it also means I’m off center, which is the same as overwhelmed in my book. I write this entry left handed because my thumb is in a splint from the one two punch of consumer electronics and constantly picking up a growing 14 month old. So even blogging – usually one of my least stressful items is challenging. I…
My fondest memories of being with my family are firmly rooted in the beach. I remember my dad swimming and goofing off; I remember my beautiful mother lounging, and I remember having endless things to do with not hardly anything. I also remember sleeping deeply after being tossed by the waves. Tin is starting to build his memories now even though all reports say that he won’t really retain any memories until he is 4…
Version #1 We all needed a break, so we decided to book some time on the beach. And then an oil spill happened and we didn’t know whether all of the creatures in the Gulf would be dead in a matter of weeks and on a smaller scale if our beach vacation would be ruined. Then I got sick right before we were leaving and thought even if the spill didn’t reach the shores, I’d…
A neighbor told me the best way to eradicate ants: scoop a little of one ant pile and dump it on another and you create a war whereby the ants kill each other off till the last ant is standing. I pondered this idea as I was staring down at all my ant bites while relaxing on the beach. The question that comes to mind is if you extrapolate this notion to the Israel/Palestinian struggle…
We’re headed to the beach – our great mother – to spend Mother’s Day – and we will offer a dedication to Ocean, Earth and our own mothers this Sunday. I already told Tin this morning that he made me a mother and I thank him for that. To get started, I took the dogs out to loosen up the pent up energy they were feeling from seeing us pack and Loca dove into the…
May 06, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Your subconscious has decided that you need to take a trip. It might be an actual physical journey to some new place you’ve dreamed of going, or it might just be a trip down Memory Lane. Once you’re on the road, you’re glad that you went along for the ride! It feels so good to get away from it all, and you know that you’re overdue. Invite someone else along, and…