Making time for fun
Stress takes on many forms – anxiety dreams, short temper, tight and rigid body. There is a way out. Hooping!
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Month: November 2008
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How to have it all
Let’s see start the day with a nervous breakdown, let that carry you through every detail of the day as it progresses, then finally capture two solid hours of productive work that is not fraught with trying to get online, stay online, send an email, receive an email, and take breather and run to see one of Prospect 1’s installations in City Park at Popp’s Fountain. Here is Loca enjoying it with me. These are…
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A perfect evening in New Orleans
As soon as she got out of the cab, we whisked Flower to the Ogden to go hear the second half of Mary Gauthier. It was standing room only when we walked in the door, and Mary’s rich vocals were already in play singing Christmas in Paradise, one of my favorites. She looked so petite, smaller than I imagined but her voice carried the three story height of the Ogden, reaching up to the people…
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Mary Gauthier tonight at the Ogden
I was moping on the couch, trying to get work done the other day when this email flashes across my screen from the Ogden After Hours – Mary Gauthier is there tonight. The wonder of living here. Flower gets in late, we’ll start her visit with some good music.
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Widening your lens
Yesterday, I spent all day studying different areas that inform media and I realized how often it is easy to suffer from tunnel vision. I’ve been sitting in the same bath water for so long, it’s gotten polluted. As a fiction writer, I always abided by the notion that all things inform your work – art begets literature begets architecture begets dance begets music begets just about everything – even the food you eat, which…
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Waffling around
I had this surreal moment this morning coming out of the park and seeing the mayor of the hood. I remembered a dream he was in last night where we were sitting in his kitchen eating waffles. I was at the corner and the streetcar was coming, and I saw him to the right with his dog, and then a nun appeared out of nowhere and was crossing in front of us. That wasn’t the…
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More this on that
For the record, I’m not looking to make Tatjana my fourth husband, in case inquiring minds want to know why I’m obsessed about this Prop 8 nonsense – but I really can’t believe in this day and age that gay people can’t get married. I came across this today and have to say transparency never sounded so good (please also, ahem, note the reference to do onto others):
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A pause for peaked
Barely woke this morning because I felt like my whole body had jet lag and basically have moved through the day in that constant state of feeling peaked, puny, under the weather. I went to yoga to try to shake the feeling, and while it provided a temporary reprieve, I almost felt like crying when I was in downward dog. I have spent the better part of the afternoon working from the den, and even…
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Don’t judge a book by its cover
A photographer friend of ours came over last night to shoot some pics of T and me. He’s doing a piece on femininity, challenging the notion of what it means. For T and me, it’s uncanny, how our looks betray us – yet it took me world enough and time to come to this realization on my own. The exhibit will be on display at Swirl, opening the first Friday of December.
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Re-confirming what I know
We spoke this morning with an attorney who specializes in adoptions, her experience, knowledge and big heart assured us of our next moves. This is my Daily Affirmation: November 10, 2008 I give thanks for all those who have come before me and brought enlightenment to the world. Their legacy enriches me beyond measure.