There are two beliefs that the common person holds for certain – you can’t change another person and you can travel miles away from your home but you are still who you are wherever you arrive. In O’s magazine this month is a quote that says, “People change for those they love quite often…The relationships that call forth positive change are those that provide a ground of accepting the person…Relationships can illuminate flaws in one’s…
Eeyore is a fictional character from the book series Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore spells his name “eoR”. He is a pessimistic, gloomy, old donkey who is a friend of Winnie the Pooh. Eeyore’s name is a phonetic representation of the donkey’s bray: an (onomatopoeia), possibly derived from the baby talk name for the animal. Last night, my dinner companion held forth a combination of Eeyore, Prince of Darkness, and Man of Mystery. Hmmm.
B and I walked across town from one appointment to the next and happened to walk through Boston Commons and wow, the trees were a blazing scarlet, umber and mustard. What a beautiful urban landscape. I have grown more fond of Boston through these years of quarterly visits – and naturally it has been helped tremendously by the love I have for B and J – possibly two of the best people I have met…
I caught up with H in NY late in the afternoon after a meeting close to his office on Houston. He is working on the master plan for several districts in New Orleans with Fred Schwartz (the office he works for). He was telling me that in the lower nine a lot of houses were handed down through generations so there are a lot of people who have no titles to their homes. What was…
I met up with one of the salemen in my company on the way to see a client and he was cranky as all get out and so I asked him why he was in such a pissy mood and he said he wasn’t. Later over drinks he told me he was mad at me because he thought I had misquoted his source – I hadn’t, because my own source had replicated the same information.…
At the gargoyle store in Boston, J & I learned that gargoyle is onomatopoeia – they are literally spouts that water runs through so the sound of water rushing through the opening is gargoyle. The shop was gothic and cobwebby like any gargoyle store should be and Cookie from my girls trip to Nantucket had bought one of their gargoyles for J and B when they got married years ago and she told me I…
My company is on a growth mission and the CEO has dubbed it 007 – because we intend to see results come 2007. That has inspired some nicknames around the firm. The guy in London is 008. And one of the salesmen was speculating another was going to be 009. I said I’ll be Pussy Galore!
When I arrived at the airport in New Orleans this evening a jazz band walked up and started playing by the baggage claim and everyone was soon tapping their toes. You tell me why I would not kiss the ground I walk on?
Gomez gets irritated that all of his ex’s seem to be my friends – like I gather them up faster than he can get rid of them. The other day sitting at Le Petite Grocery, he said, as he is want to say, the funniest thing. Someone brought up an ex of his – V – and he looked me dead in the eye and without blinking said, “How come you’re not friends with her?”…
I’m not sure what the recipe is for longevity – not sure there really is one, but I was observing an elderly couple in JFK this morning and he was on the phone and everytime he said something, she’d say, “tell him ___”, and he didn’t flinch, he’d pepper his conversation with her fill-ins and what his own thoughts. I said to myself, self I said, that’s kind of nice. Beats “don’t finish my sentences,”…