TGIF
If you look back over the blogging I’ve done in the last six years, I wonder how many times the title TGIF appears? It is what it is.
Month: May 2010
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Measuring your life
I’m beginning to believe that post-45, I could easily measure my years in ailments – there was the year I injured my piriformis, then the year I had carpal tunnel, then the bunion and hammer toes and resulting bunionectomy and toe surgery, then the tennis elbow, then the other side of my back with the nondescript knot that is either arthritis or too much Pilates, now it’s the thumb. Of course. My thumb which is…
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Life is short, but it is wide
Yesterday, two colleagues passed away and we also heard that someone who has been coping with a lot, just added one more thing to their burden, a father passed away. I’ve thought about dogs passing, parents passing, colleagues passing and how life goes on without them, or rather life is punctuated by their absence but continues nonetheless. We’ve been reflecting on the journey as we approach our annual conference next week as an organization, I’m…
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Stress reliever 101
There is no better way to start your day than to take a walk through City Park with your dogs and see fellow dog walkers, runners, and the beautiful Great Blue Herons chucking across the grass under the spread of the majestic oaks. Dogs are interesting creatures. When we were at the beach both Heidi and Loca did some amazing things. I was walking back to the house from a long walk on the beach,…
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The daily toll
The news today was bleak – in one news blast there was some hope that the oil spill was going to be capped soon and things were not as bad as they had looked before. But then the next news blast came from a neighbor who said that the oil was going under the concrete because the chemicals they put on the water was pushing it under. An update from Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries says…
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On being who you are
I hope Tin gets to this point in his life – I hope it comes soon and lasts a lifetime – and that is to love yourself. It’s taken a long time for me to acknowledge that I love my solitude, I need to dance, and I’m never going to be thin. It is what it is. Last night, my mother in law was talking about how she can’t keep her weight on and that…
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Our vacation home
The people who have built those homes in Ft. Morgan are lucky to have a house on the beach. But the last two evenings, I’ve sat on the porch giving Tin his bottle and looking at the light on the bayou and damn, I’m lucky to live right here in this spot. We really have everything we need in our little community and if you can get your mind to focus on the light on…
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Happiness is…
While I was on the beach, my Yogi tea zen dropping said, “Happiness is nothing but total relaxation.” I think total eluded me, but pockets were accomplished. I think now that there were long walks on the beach, one morning on the porch alone with my tea and the sound of surf, and a few trips to the drugstore for a knee brace where I was alone with my thoughts. I spoke to a colleague…
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Parenting 501 (read: no answers in the back of the book)
When Tin came home, a lot of mothers told me that parenting is the most rewarding and challenging thing they have ever done in their lives and literally, bite my tongue, I thought to myself “challenging?” – how could anyone say this is challenging as I moved deftly from having lost a parent, acquired a son, and changed my life radically in a space of a week. I really thought challenging was because perhaps those…
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Stress 101
What does it mean when everything stresses you out? For me it means I’m overwhelmed but it also means I’m off center, which is the same as overwhelmed in my book. I write this entry left handed because my thumb is in a splint from the one two punch of consumer electronics and constantly picking up a growing 14 month old. So even blogging – usually one of my least stressful items is challenging. I…