San Francisco has no seasons except cold summers – but fall is initiated with the thunderous sound of jets courtesy of the Blue Angels who come out for Fleet Week – it’s truly one of my favorite times to be there – only I won’t be there, I will be driving to Sacramento to see my friend L and the jets will fly far away from where we are.
Yom Kippur means simply the day of atonement – atone for your sins. Check. I woke up pleasantly without the barrage of consumer electronics – blackberry, instant message, cell phone, home phone – and the day unraveled in a good way – I think everyone needs to take at least one of these days a year – look back over your year, figure out what went wrong and what went right, and make some personal…
So by this time tomorrow night my slate will be wiped clean. I feel a sin coming on.
A friend has spent the last three days with a man in hot pursuit, bird dogging her in an unrelenting fashion, she found out haphazzardly he’s married. Things that make you go hmmm. Watching this new series – Brothers and Sisters – Rachel Griffiths character says to a man she has feelings for – “I don’t know if being in sync with a man who is not my husband is worse than not being in…
What is truly touching about J, is that he met this woman, C, when he was very very young – I think about 17 – and his mother said, “J, stay with C, cause she is going to take care of you and love you your whole life.” And he has been with that woman ever since.
N wrote up the profile of J based on his conversation with me Saturday morning to send into nolafugee.com’s 40 under the influence contest – here it is: Joe, a prime candidate for 40 Under the Influence, does not want to divulge his last name. He has long been known as “Black Joe,†to distinguish him from “White Joe†his downstairs neighbor, yet he’s always preferred “Red Pick-up Truck Joe,†a mouthful. But the hurricane…
When I was voting yesterday, I ran into E, who gave me a hug. It’s nice to have your therapist live so close! In the meantime, another woman had walked up behind me, but I wasn’t quite sure how I knew her and she began talking to me about the LaLa. I realized D is my neighbor to the right whose little tow head kids I watch playing in their backyard which had been dotted…
I went to pick up mom dressed in red and there she was waiting for me wearing red. Can’t tell you how good it was to be in Commander’s and everyone there welcomed us back. We sat at a table by a big picture window and a big soap nut and oak tree on the outside. There was the usual bevy of waitstaff, but it appears a lot of the men have been replaced by…
Bike ride this morning almost kicked my ass. The bayou was crowded with a run/walk for breast cancer. The heat is back. Ms Marie sitting on her porch this morning, but I was listening to R and couldn’t stop to talk to her – want to do a mini oral history on her. N met her for the first time the other day and said “I heart her” and I said don’t you know it…
I took the Bean out this morning reluctantly as I wanted to linger in bed this morning, but then I ran into R as I was making the turn and we ended up going in circles for two hours, walking and talking. She had just bought a new work of art and eventually we made our way back to her tree house apartment to look at the shocking red color the photographer used. What is…