In the gloaming
The light is fading softly and the air is still cool as we are about to enter May and New Orleans’ long hot summer, but something about the right now feels so precious I want to stay in this moment a little longer.
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Month: April 2008
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24 hour count down to T minus 0
It’s approximately 24 hours till T returns after leaving for 24 days – that is half as long as I knew her before she left – well not really, we spent a lifetime getting to know each other and just happened to have met now – what’s time anyway, just a linear equation, right? Then why did 24 days feel like eternity? Because it’s like taking candy from a baby – a BIG BABY –…
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Beauty is as Beauty does
A friend was telling me that she has relied on her looks most of her life and fears as she ages she will lose what has been her signature – I told her she is wrong – dead wrong – she may feel this way but others don’t perceive only her looks – beauty is as beauty does – we see beauty in deed as well as what meets the eyes. Look at Cesoria Evoria…
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Carpe Diem
The main reason I ran out to see Gal Holiday last night is this – at dinner Monday night my friend told me that her friend had just died of a heart attack at 49! Yikes, I thought, as Friday I will be 49 – I must seize the day (or the night). The thing about that is this – my dad lived his life in perpetual carpe diem mode – indulging his gypsy urges…
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T minus 36 hours
They say you can work out religiously but if you stop for a period of two weeks you will lose it all – the cut, the ripple, the tautness of each muscle – gone, vanished. A friend of mine asked once, “where does love go?” No need to question “does absence make the heart grow fonder?” – I know the answer. This morning, the reality that we have been too long apart is palpable across…
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Gal Holiday is the real deal
Went to Chickie Wah Wah on the spur of the moment last night with G to see Gal Holiday and Ingrid Lucia – saw Gal (her signature bleached blonde hair now subdued into a sultry brunette) but didn’t stay to see the band play because it was almost midnight and the second band hadn’t even started and well, it was a school night (sigh)!
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No city for old men
Joe stopped by today to replace two gardenia bushes – they are the latest and greatest “frost-free” gardenia bushes that look like shit, so I am replacing them with the tried and true ones – he asked me if I had heard of the shooting yesterday – “some kid got half his head blown off with an AK47.” I asked him what the hell is going on and he said it’s “beefing” – Rachel –…
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Self-efficacy or how I learned to love failure
There is a great article in the WSJ this morning – the psychobabble is that some people succeed because they figure if they keep trying they will succeed. Duh. The best point in the article is how to manage failure and not to let it sideline you – as my friend J is want to quote “your best play, is your next one.” Psychologists call it “self-efficacy,” the unshakable belief some people have that they…
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T minus 2 days
I had lunch with a friend last night at Vega – we had a delicious bottle of Spanish wine and tapas – and we got caught up. She said, “You seem like you’re in a good mood.” I said, “Thursday!” She smiled with her whole face, eyes, mouth, nose all wrinkled because I was smiling in the same way.