On Sunday, we were going to try to head out and see the second line parade – a friend said this one in particular was one of his favorites – but we never made it there as all of these second lines are in the afternoon during Tin’s nap time. There will be a time for second lines. Sitting here looking out at the Bay that is now vividly blue from my hotel window, I…
A friend recently used an odd descriptor for a mutual friend, he told me, “Have you ever noticed how nervous he is, he is motivated by fear.” Hmm, I thought, thinking about it and seeing verisimilitude to my own observations. “Yes, I noticed,” said another friend, “I noticed also when he let go of fear, didn’t you? I heard it in his voice not too long ago, the way he began cracking jokes and seemed…
Reductive In days of caves and communal songs, in days of old, There was no morphine. The humans’ brains Were just as quick and big as in 2010, But there were no bookstores or even any libraries, So when a situation came up which seemed new There was little guidance, only the oral history bullshit. In unendurable pain from just about anything, Cancer, diabetes, eye infections, gangrene, hunting bites, Severed limbs, a widespread deadly arthritis…
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel…
Dinner and champagne and catching up with an old friend now having hit the 50 yard mile – “If only I had known,” she said, “Sex? .. forgetaboutit .. overrated, I could have been so productive,” and therein lies the nuttiness of aging – it’s not that youth is wasted on the young, it’s that aging gives you a new perspective that would have been SO HANDY in your youth it almost feels like some…
Man: “When did you check out of this marriage?” Woman: “When I said ‘I do.’”
Left New Orleans in the low 80s and arrived in San Francisco with the thermometer at 91 degrees at night – go figure.
After an auspicious beginning to my flight that involved burning brakes midair, I landed and am now sitting here looking out at the dusky light on the San Francisco bay. A Hornblower boat is motoring by and the Embarcadero is active and teeming with walkers and eaters and drinkers all enjoying the view. There is talk back home that they will take down the Claiborne overpass and having lived here in the Bay Area when…
I was stunned and amazed by how beautiful City Park was this morning but have to admit the weather had a lot to do with it. There was a significant drop in the temperature this morning sending T straight to the closet for a long sleeved shirt and me still in shorts but loving the cool air. The dogs were bouncier than usual and the museum was bathed in this rose light that almost looked…
We were sitting on the front porch last night after T and T2 came back from a little gathering and I had sorted out what I was traveling with this coming week, when some neighbors dropped by to porch hang. The subject came up about the columns which everyone considers themselves an expert on and all loves to weigh in on. The issue – solid mahogany columns that are gorgeous but need refinishing every 9…