Our neighbor who is a musician – WAIT, ARE ALL MY NEIGHBORS MUSICIANS? – almost – anyway, one of our neighbors who is a musician put together a holiday CD for us with Spirit as the theme and one of the songs on it is Van Morrison singing Enlightenment. I love this song because it speaks to nonattachment, my theme of the new year. Because as I practice my meditation on Wednesday nights its all…
Our friend from Spain, Alejandro, left just short of being able to celebrate just one more night with us, and that was last night, the 7th night of Hanukkah and the 7th of December. We usually have people over for the last night but because of other plans, we decided to do it on the 7th and it was impromptu and had all the qualities of spontaneity and yet fun glommed onto it. At the…
The writer/director of The Louise Log informed me the missing episodes are available on metacafe – #5, 6, 7 and 10. I watched them and when I went to respond in this cyberworld I didn’t know whether to respond to her comments on my blog, comment on her blog, comment on metacafe, comment on the YouTube site for The Louise Log and since I’m no longer on Facebook I decided to just post my response…
Today is December 7th, the one year anniversary of the first day I laid eyes on Tin for the first time. I remember that day like it was yesterday, first of all I was in shock – I had just buried my mother on Wednesday Dec 2nd, took ill on Thursday Dec 3rd, got the phone call on Friday Dec 4th, saw this iPhoto pic that our attorney took with his great aunt on Saturday…
Every Monday seems to follow the same pattern – I’m not that interested in it to begin with and then it seems to live up to the mania that I associate with the day. This day started late to get up, missed the dog walk (they were nuts naturally), phone calls, then Tin to the doctor for his 21 month check up. Where the doctor said he was developmentally advanced (always what a mother wants…
Last night, our friend came over to light the menorah as he was headed back to Spain today, and then my neighbor and his two friends stopped by on the way home from the Quarter so we all lit the menorahs. Right before another friend had dropped off four perfectly made soufganiyots that were divine! After we lit the candles one of the guys told me that this was the first year he wasn’t home…
Finally, a name for my disorder – TMA – too much activity. I was reading about how to ease anxiety and a recent study found that those who worked overtime were more likely to be anxious and depressed. People with anxiety typified by tension, worry, and high drive often develop nonstop lifestyle they feel is impossible to change. Such people get a lot done, but overactivity leads to exhaustion and more anxiety. Go figure. I…
Someone asked the other day what blogs I read and where I get my news from – I say a variety of sources – NYT online and Sunday delivery, Streetaccounts daily, The Huffington Post, and several media blogs I visit every morning. Today I saw that The Daily Mail was the most read site after the NYT and so I went to it and one of the top stories was this about a mother who…
I tend to construct these truths in my mind – most of which are centered around adages that I have heard all my life – as in, if you do this and behave this way, you will be rewarded this way. But then life has a way of throwing curve balls left and right and you start realizing that there is no right way so to speak and there may not even be good intentions…
I don’t know if it is being over 50 that suddenly makes the cycle of life so ever present on your mind or if losing a lot brings you to this point. Today, I planned to go to acro yoga but somehow couldn’t get in the mood for team sports and so I ventured over to take an open beginner’s yoga class only it turned out to be a two and a half hour here…