We woke up to pouring rain – no walks in the park, and quick dashes to the backyard by the dogs (who hate to be wet). Up here in the tower working, with the pouring rain, I wonder about my colleagues – in Poland, Germany, UK, Chicago, and California – we speak to each other via IM, Skype, telephone, cell phone, email but don’t have the shared experience of rain, sunshine, cold, hot. It’s snowing…
The sky is greyed over with cotton ball clouds giving the light this overexposed effect, sort of sepia without the brown tone. Walking through the park this morning everything had that sense of existing within an old time photograph. As we were midway into the park, I saw a leafless tree with seven ink black cormorants perched on the branches, their ropey necks slung low giving them a snake-like appearance even out of the water.…
My friend who just weeks ago admonished me with “carpe diem” warns me I’m “moving too fast” – my other friend leaves me a message to call him because he wants to speak to a woman in love since I’m the only one he knows who is – another friend sends me an email and says, glad you are having fun, but don’t forget to blog for the rest of us – yet another says…
We spoke the other night about not seeing each other – about being at a party together and you seeing my three friends and not me, in Puerto Rico marching in a crowd, at Swirl amongst all our mutual friends, and all around this small tiny town New Orleans – yet not ever seeing each other – then on Tuesday, a fortnight ago, in the midst of a sumptuous feast for our eyes – a…
T gave mom chocolates for Valentine’s Day – she was quite touched by this gesture. She called late yesterday and said “tell T I ate all of her delicious chocolates except for the frog. I was worried if I ate the frog a prince would appear.” And I replied, “And you wanted a princess?” Without flinching mom responded: “Honey, I can’t handle either right now.”
This many years ago in my mother’s belly, her pushed against the window worried about my father who defied curfew in Havana and went out to “get food” – “check on my grandfather’s stores” – “see what was going on” (the story changes every time it is told) – my mother, eight months plus pregnant pushed up against the window trying to see the 14 year old soldiers “smacking their chewing gum,” “carrying rifles,” coming…
My lips are being bit daily – giving them a nice plumpness – and everything I have to say right now I’m saying to one person who is making me very very very happy.
It’s been one week since my “date” and obviously a lot of change has occurred around the LaLa, like there is someone else here when I wake up in the morning and when I go to sleep at night – which is strange and beautiful – we walked Loca and Lucky in the park this morning and T could not help but notice the lush beauty that surrounds us here – the park with the…
The way Americans can be held up to the glaring light of the world tribunal – guns – again it is guns. NIU, our sympathetic sister campus – we have so many of our people at my company who came from there and yet someone took everyone’s confidence away yesterday by sneaking from behind a black curtain and destroying the lives of so many people, not just the ones he killed, but the ones he…
You could choose to think of Valentine’s day as a farce – as some silly Hallmark gesture to get you to purchase greeting cards – but then you’d have to believe that Mardi Gras is ridiculous and catching beads and wearing costumes are garish customs, and that delivering flowers to a loved one is superficial and unimaginative, and you’d really have to be willing to let go of a lot of conventional rituals such as…