Main category.
When I woke up the morning after my birthday I said from a dream state “where will I find happiness today” and sure enough the day brought forth lots of pleasant surprises. D, who gave me his card the other day on the bayou, stopped me again with his hand over his heart and said he is in love with my hair. I told him one day when I’m ready to get rid of it…
Turns out Cliff didn’t just touch my life – he touched everyone he came in contact with. He was E’s mail carrier and when he left – her block threw a going away party for him. She almost welped up when we were talking about him yesterday. No one can replace him. Meanwhile, I spoke to the PO yesterday – and here is a day in the life of a New Orleanian: I went to…
Fall to your knees. Went for an early morning long bike ride – feeling surreal – hands out – fast ride – IPOD blaring – coming down the only hill, flat tire. Chin up – won’t let it get me down. Robin pulls up beside me says I’ll fix flat – does so in record time – says enjoy your ride – then takes off. Nice guy does good deed of the day – a…
Today is the first day of the rest of the week – right? – Zen Masters of the Obvious – caught up to L this morning with the dogs and rounded the bend to the BSF running by and N and Renny soon made their way to us – we had one more good laugh about the Moss Man being schizophrenic – L not quite getting why we both get so tickled over this –…
Jazz Fest began under auspicious momentum – it started with Meow that led to an explanation, then to another Meow to ameliorate a hot topic, and well, by the third Meow – I was wondering why I was even bothering to respond to anyone. Pick up P and walked into the Fairgrounds with all the full expectation that music heals the soul, satisfies the soul, and just makes you happy. And it did. The weekend…
There is something about women that needs no training – they just get it – last night G said “adopt and I will help you raise her” and then at about 3:30 today when I was at war with the car wash and threatening to take a case of coke if they didn’t do something about the jammed machine, N called and said “cocktail” and I said, “are you kidding me?” and was able to…
Woke early to walk the Bean – yesterday was her birthday – she is now 11 years old and she is doing so much better than before when she was having episodes. Met up with L and the boys and we circled the bayou catching up on the past week. Then we saw K who said that her JF crawfish party is on hold because her house isn’t done and there are no crawfish. Apparently…
Lay in bed last night with L in the bed next to me watching our pay per view movie and afterwards turned to Gray’s Anatomy which was some weird montage of previous shows – and so here is the montage since I’ve been incommunicado. First of all it is raining kids – L is due in Sep but now S is due in Oct and she shouted in the phone “I’m having a Libra” for…
When I was putting together the God and Jesus CD for N and the Snake for Easter Sunday, I put Western Wall on the playlist, which is an Emmylou Harris and Linda Rodstadt song. I remember Emmylou talking about this kind of music – how it is all about restraint. And you can hear it in both of their voices, the holding back, the waiting a beat, then issuing the lyrics steadily. I was thinking…
Today was the first day of summer here in New Orleans – hot summer – yikes. I packed up all my sweaters – don’t think there is a rat’s ass chance in hell there will be cool weather for a while. And so I sorted – clothes – shorts, tank tops, sweaters and stopped there. I just don’t know where to sort them to. This apartment is so jammed up it is crazy – I…