After years of fancy dop kits carrying everything I thought I might need while traveling, due to 9/11, I am reduced to a plastic baggie with a few sundries. That’s so I can carry the bag on the flight and not allow them to lose my stuff yet again. Once is a enough, in my estimation. But alas, they can’t seem to stop fucking with me. Make this flight number four where my bags have…
We are all looking for nirvana right? Nirvana means letting go. I feel like I’m still working through the mechanics of my pendulum, which used to be so far out of balance in how much I let others influence how I responded to myself and then swung radically into the people be damned mode. I find myself now moving towards equilibrium but I still have setbacks where I feel I have lead shoes on and…
We went to three parties over the past two nights and there have been a coterie of familiar faces as if making it the same party over and over. Someone leaving, someone graduating, someone getting older. The beauty of New Orleans lies in the fact that everyone of these people joined the party. Here at the airport, I look across the terminal, and see the familiar California faces from the last dance of the evening,…
The internet has changed a lot of the way we get our information but mostly its made so much of it free. It’s a little after 6AM and I’m sitting in Louis Armstrong International Airport (always Moisant to me) using the WiFi. Of course, for free. Welcome to the information age where we expect to be able to get on the world wide web and pull off information about our lives at no cost to…
There are many things I admire in a person but the ability to rally is tops of my list. Last night, despite all conditions to the contrary, we both rallied to go by a friend’s house who just defended his dissertation and then we went and danced for our other friend’s 40th birthday party. I was barely packed by 8PM, at the first celebration, we both fell peaked into some weird dimension so much so…
I’m headed out to California for a couple of days of work and then meeting T in Santa Fe for a respite. I’ve been rushing like mad so that I can stand still for a moment. Downstairs is the screen porch and the flowers in bloom in the backyard – no time to enjoy. Out front is the bayou, and the last sightings of the pelicans – no time to rock. Movies are in the…
A friend visiting was laughing about another friend who had this to say about New Orleans, “I want to return to a town with only one festival a year.” Well, it’s that time of year again when the festival are stacking up on top of each other. Yes, it’s nutty, it’s crazy, it’s insane – but that’s New Orleans. Next week is the official kick off of my 50 years around the sun celebration in…
Mom called the other days to say there is a mourning dove who flew behind her washing machine and it has been coo’ing for days. I asked her if her neighbor could take a look and get the bird out. He did, but he didn’t see a bird. Mom called the other day and left a voicemail message and then I called her back and got her voicemail. Then she called right back, got my…
Yee ha to Iowa to provide a ruling allowing same-sex marriage – Boo to California!!! “We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective,” Justice Mark S. Cady wrote for the seven-member court, adding later, “We have a constitutional duty to ensure equal protection of the law.”
I spoke to my mom today who is still caught up in a quagmire of inertia about what to do. She now wants to recycle 80% of her magazines – the ones that are occupying about 70% of her living space – good sign. She started on Cymbalta a week ago and maybe this is the first sign of clarity. Meanwhile, we’re figuring out what to do in the event of an economic crisis around…