So far have two friends who have been to Bay St. Louis and around Alabama’s Gulf Shores and said the coastline is looking clean. Just heard from someone who got back from Destin yesterday morning, and said the shore was clear (except he heard that tarballs washed ashore last night after he left). A friend continues to blog about the shoreline in Florida. I continue to have hope that the ocean is mightier than human…
We went to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last night in the recently remodeled Canal Place Theaters (very fancy by the way). I’d say it was hard to judge the movie given what we knew going in. I run into this sometimes when I’m speaking to a friend or acquaintance who happened to have read my blog and I’m repeating a story or thought. It sort of loses it’s immediacy and luster told…
I saw a friend running on the bayou yesterday afternoon when I was walking Tin around, one of the neighborhood lesbians that overindexes compared to most communities. She sent me a great clip this morning about a woman who wrote a book about being raised by a lesbian mom and about a study that shows that children from lesbian parents overindex towards being more adjusted, getting better grades in school, and overall. Interesting gaybit. I…
Apparently John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus and so his birthday falls on June 24th and is celebrated with a feast day. Some cultures celebrate the eve of St. John’s Day with music, dancing, food and a celebration. This date is also venerated by Voodoo practitioners and Marie Laveau was said to hold ceremonies on Bayou St. John. Because of that our modern voodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman continues the ritual by…
Turns out every child around the bayou is sick with this bug – Joseph, Ruby, Lucia, Tin – whatyagonnado?
Yesterday, the plan was simple – walk dogs, work, gym, work, spend time with Tin, walk over to see Sallie Ann Glassman perform her St. John’s Eve ritual on the Magnolia Bridge with mother in law while T worked with a colleague on her manuscript. Okay that was what was supposed to happen. 1. The dogs got walked, but literally right as we crossed into the park a deluge came and we ran into Loca’s…
Boo hoo is all I have to say. Tin came down with a fever and I could tell by the look in his eyes this morning that something was not right. He had slanty eyes but not sleeping, not fussy, but off and sure enough he caught a virus from the birthday party he was at on Saturday. Germ bus – other kids are germ buses!
Someone sent an email volley with a lewd photograph about finding a starfish in the Gulf. But really before I opened the email I thought it was that one more celebrity was giving their opinion about the Oil Spill – so far James Cameron has been consulting by the head of the EPA. Robert Redford was on CNN last night offering up his wisdom. And I believe Lenny Kravitz was on the news the other…
In yoga today, Michele said she had traveled to the Gulf to check in on Mother Ocean and was happy to report that Mother Ocean said she was bigger than all this and would survive. Good news. I checked in with the bayou and asked if all the rest would be okay and the bayou said, yes, indeed.
Tin woke up late this morning and I envied him the ability to sleep in. I got up early to walk the dogs as this was the first morning I didn’t have to be at my desk before dawn and just as we were stepping out it started thundering and Heidi grew skittish, so we just rounded the bayou and returned. A neighbor called and said it felt like spring outside and I thought she…