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I woke this morning at 3:45 – the joy of now trying to scramble the details together. Last night, after I was already in bed I received an offer on the house, less than 24 hours before the Open House today. I was able to read the Sunday New York Times that for the first time arrived early enough to do so since Tin came. Before dawn I had a conversation with the bayou and…
I went to sleep last night wondering about the lot – is it meant to be, was I doing all I could to get it? On the way to Zumba, I dropped a letter at the owner of another lot saying I was interested, hedging my bet. When I left Zumba, feeling refreshed and my insides nicely shaken up, I ran into the guy that I want to buy to buy the lot from, the…
Yesterday, was a move forward and a setback in thinking. My therapist said to embrace my friends right now because I will need them, but I’ve found it difficult to do just that because as one told me, the more ears you seek, the more mouths you’ll find. Change rattles people and change is what’s happening. May 2013 would be the 8th year in the LaLa and February 2013 would be five years with Tatjana…
The day started with a blessing, not your usual kind of eyes closing and palms together, but more of nuts rattling in an African marriage blood bowl, cigar smoke sheathing your outer layers, and concoctions of honey, rosemary, holy and sea water, rose petals and “other” things. Whose calling you? Your mama – she wants a candle and her flowers changed. Your corner is blocked. A spirit kicked me in your office. Why are they…
During New Year’s Day lunch Tatjana got the dime. Her year for transformation. I think I’ve done enough, thank you very much. It’s raining outside and cold, a sort of typical New Orleans winter when there is no typical New Orleans winter. Our friends visiting from Spain got to experience 365 days in only four – from humid and hot to cold and rainy. Yesterday, before we left to take our friends to the airport,…
At the start of 2012, we sat down on the screen porch in the LaLa to have our New Year’s day traditional meal of black eyed peas, potatoes with a dime hid inside, cabbage, sweets and spirits. I remember seeing the dime and making sure that I gave it to Aleida, my house cleaner who was eating with us as we had just hosted guests on our VRBO site for New Year’s eve weekend. Instead,…
We have friends visiting us from Spain, a mother and her son, and they’ve come at probably not the best time because of all of the changes in process in my life but they are part of the process and so what better time to come and distract us all from the matters at hand. After all, if they had come later, they’d have missed the LaLa and if they had come early, they’d need…
I’ve been driving around looking at houses and areas that I could move to when the LaLa is sold. I started this process with an open mind, not necessarily an open heart. My first knee jerk reaction was to live elsewhere than the bayou because I didn’t know if I could emotionally pass my house every day and see my lost dream. Last night, we saw a limo pull up and a bunch of people…
December 31, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Try to keep matters of the heart on the up-and-up right now. Being brutally honest is tough sometimes, but it is much more valuable than softening the truth with little white lies. Too often, those little white lies will backfire on you. The more honest you can be, the more you can expect others to be straight with you — so get ready to hear the truth yourself, and be…
Tonight’s the last full moon of 2012 and it’s called the Cold Moon, appropriately so. It’s not cold yet, but it’s going to get cold, dropping twenty degrees in the next few hours. Cold Moon Each month I show you the same face, and you call me a different name. Now you call me Cold Moon, but I am always cold. You call me Long Night Moon, but my nights are always long, bright on…