In the groggy clarity of having woken up to the L-word series being over, the garden planted for 2009, things gotten off my chest to my mom, and facing a brand new week on the first day of the rest of my life, I woke to a blog link from Marc Pagani, whose house we celebrated Obama’s inauguration at. It was a nice way to start again.
I replanted the Kaffir lime tree into the backyard and then planted an herb garden along the side of the house – basil, tarragon, oregano, sage, borage, cilantro, and creole tomatoes. Then I added some foxgloves to the garden in front and planted Love in the Mist and Camomile in back. The day was really outstanding and again it felt good to get my hands in the mud. Only I wanted to ride my bike,…
Mom: Sorry to keep having the same recurrent argument with you and I don’t like fighting or being estranged so I want to put an end to this dance. But I want you to know that I’m just frustrated. The way I see things is you are getting to a period in your life where the next years are about trying to strike a balance between feeling safe (physically, emotionally, financially) and staying healthy and…
Yahoo’s word of the day is so lame most of the time – are they pandering to people with a 20 word vocabulary or what? My favorite words I’ve learned from other word of the day lists are coprophagia, toady, moot (I guarantee you everyone gets this wrong), and many others. Today, Yahoo’s Word of the Day is durable. Unless they are making a joke of the fact that nothing in life is durable, it’s…
Michelle was telling us how her teacher is a wordsmith and how even when you take the words with the most weighted meanings and look at their etymology there is usually a neutral definition. Like for instance, evil is when something is done to excess.
I don’t know if it is me but most of the people I know are on antidepressants and even though I don’t believe in them, I’ve been suggesting to my mother that she should get on them too. The problem is that most of the people I know who are depressed are also addicted to pot, alcohol or Vicodin – all depressants! It’s crazy – if they gave up the addiction that they think is…
Finally, a good cup of tea! I spoke with David at New Mexico Tea Company about my caffeine intolerance and he suggested the Puerh. I love this tea and came back from China with many little bird’s nest of Puerh that a friend gave me. Her father had a tea store in Shanghai. Finally, this morning, I steeped a perfect cup and sat down to enjoy it. Wow – what a difference good tea makes…
Watching the sky outside my office with big rectangular clouds obscuring the baby blue sky, I’m convinced that like a snake, I’ve recently shed some skin. Some part of me feels like the last two weeks have been torturous in ways I couldn’t get my mind around. And suddenly today, I feel like the answers are much clearer – like, oh yeah, I’m doing that again and right, I haven’t done some of this and…
Woke this morning to an outstanding day and went with a friend and our dogs to Cabrini Dog Park in the Quarter. While we sat and caught up on a million things, the dogs ran around like lunatics. They made a friend, Charlie, and soon the three were inseparable. When I got home I was itching to garden and so I want to Harold’s and lo and behold he had coleus and coreopsis and columbine…
Dear Mom: This is the letter I’m not going to write you, but it’s the one I want to write. Since I was a little girl I’ve always wanted to take care of you, to make things better for you. This has manifested itself in dreaming of buying you a nice little cottage with a garden to live in, dreams of taking you to wonderful foreign countries to experience the likes of Venice or to…