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Up and down on this life’s roller coaster and I wonder to myself, was it meant to be this way? Yesterday, the mail brought a stalker’s letter from some guy in prison who saw me in the paper who said, “I consider you one of HIS greatest gifts to me.” Hmmm. Then a missive that stopped me in my tracks – COLD – stop, not pause, just STOP, COLD. I called a friend, she said,…
Well I thought I had found my daily rhythm but last night’s thunderstorm seems to have jangled up things. This morning as I was stepping into the shower, I ended up stepping into a toilet overflowing and then spent the better part of the morning plunging my way out of the shit show that was threatening my day. Finally, showered, we raced to La Boulangerie to get pastries for the Open House at Tin’s school,…
It poured down rain last night and the thunder and lightning roused me from my bed to turn off the computer. I haven’t had a moment here in the Red House where I’ve woken up and gone, “Where the hell am I?” It’s felt as comfortable if not more to be here than I would have expected. I spoke to a dear friend yesterday, someone who is part of my three wise women who have…
This morning is about making a difference, whether that be with a kind word or a kind thought. It’s about finding a way to crowd out what is wrong with the world by holding what is right up on a pedestal. The first thing I read this morning was a Facebook post by Mudd Lavoie recognizing a post by Cupcakes and Cauldrons on encouraging other people and that fell right in line with what Tin…
I went to the Steiner study group last night as we are still reading Education as a Force for Social Change. Someone asked me what I felt, as a Jew, with Steiner’s repeated mention of Christ. I said that I didn’t imagine the Jesus Christ that I had held at arm’s length my whole life, but instead I imagined what Steiner meant was the divine in each of us. That is what Waldorf has been…
We are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole. This is what I’m trying to remember when I’m dealing with people or situations that threaten to undermine my sanity. You realize why, don’t you? Because I, Rachel Dangermond, am a caretaker. And if you digest that statement – we are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole – then you can reassure yourself that people don’t need you to take care of them. They don’t. I’ve begun…
We are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole. The part of me that I inherited from my mother, the rose colored glasses, the Pollyanna, is my best approach to life – it’s the part of me that gives me the most clarity. It’s only when I drag the past into the future that I obliterate the present. Taking a stand for myself now is about facing down the past. “I like the Red House,” said…
Lyrics to The World Is Falling Down by Abbey Lincoln There are some folks I used to know Who used to smile And say hello, And spin the world And turn the page Entertaining From the stage Father time Forever true Loves its own And me and you Disappear just like the sun, When the day is done. The world is falling down, hold my hand It’s a lonely sound, hold my hand We’ll follow…
I have so many friends and family that I did not send holiday cards to and now it seems a little after the fact. Particularly, because my holiday card would have too much information in it and would sound like the outline to a older age bildungsroman. I walked Heidi through the park this morning after Tatjana took Tin to school and I came across one of my park buddies. We were talking about his…