I slept in a little this morning, feeling like I needed it today – instead of the 5:30 wake up, I laid in bed through the bells chiming at 6 and finally got up at 6:15. When the dogs and I started around the bayou there was a blanket of grey cloud cover overhead and yet the tops of the houses were staged in this bright yellow light – it had the quality of an…
Yesterday when J was putting on his fleece pullover to leave, he looked at me and said, “Ocho, do you miss me when I’m not here?” And I said, oh boy do I. I said I think about you all the time and can’t wait for the day when it’s time to come get you. He said, “Sometimes I miss you so much I can’t breathe.” I’ve been told a lot of sweet things in my…
I was tempted by the fruit of another but pulled back in time to see that this wasn’t a healthy place for me to go and as attractive as it looked – it did not fall into my criteria of do no harm.What did Malcolm X say? If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Sunday morning, I walked over to S’s house and he made me a delicious breakfast of scrappel – don’t ask – but as we sat at the table eating I watched J in her new ska-noe motoring up and down the bayou. She couldn’t fit under the bridge because the water is too damn high so she just went back and forth between Dumaine and Harding. Then suddenly she had her dog Lucky in the…
Woke this morning to the truck suspended on top of two huge garbage cans – my attempt to take home L last night and forgetting I had put both cans right behind the truck. Thank God for Roy is all I have to say. He leveraged the tires with wood and shook his head and said, “I don’t want to know.” Meanwhile, my canoe was nearly capsized and had broken loose from its lock. I had…
For Fatma’s birthday, she rented a limo and ten of us drove around in the pouring rain dancing to a CD mix I made for her composed of Turkish pop songs and Fatmalicious (Fergilicious) and Girls Just Want to Have Fatma (Fun) and drinking champagne and planning all our trips to Turkey. And we took about 400 pictures. Wow – girls just want to have fun – it’s true – of the course the men…
I had the most intense erotic dream last night — a man I know was standing in back of me, close enough I could hear his heart beating. My whole being ached for him and I could smell the desire on his breath – he brought his hands up to my shoulders and touched me inappropriately – my face lit on fire. A lump formed in my throat and I pushed him away with my…
Last night, went with friends to see American Gangster – it was a good film, good acting, but in the end I felt it lacked drama as though they were simply retelling a true story, too true to be deemed entertainment. Coming home everyone was in the mood for a little bourbon, so we came to the LaLa and lit all the candles and poured some aged bourbon over crushed ice and I suggested a…
Met F and S to talk about the Turkish party. While we were waiting for S to arrive, F and I looked at her digital photo album and the house she is building in Rize near her mother’s tea plantation. When S arrived, we made our list pretty quickly and talked about the guest list and then started chatting away about F’s birthday party and how we are going to celebrate. A man walked over…
On Thanksgiving, someone told me “Rachel, you’re all curves and I have no brakes.” Pretty good pick up line, huh?Here’s me protecting Fatma from the girls – they were singing “Girls Just Want to Have Fatma” since she is so Fatmalicious:poca-protecting-fatma.avi