A friend drove up to meet me for half a day today and in that time we were able to once again encapsulate a year of tallying the highs and lows of our lives. Again you find the one you can laugh with, you can see life through a similar lens with, who you feel this great deal of comfort with – the reward for all the toil. Friends – there really is nothing better…
I got up at the buttcrack of dawn as my Russian friend likes to call it and got on a jet plane to Los Angeles. In my head, X was playing Los Angeles over and over. Or was it Woody Guthrie’s Coming into Los Angeles? Maybe we are living too long if I have punk and folk tangled and confused in my pea brain. But here I was out West again and wondering once again,…
My neighbor called to come to the porch and see the double rainbow. It came after a thunderstorm to end all thunderstorms. But there it was in all its glory and two of them to boot. I walked over to his porch with Tin in the Ergobaby and some other friends were there watching the rainbow. They said they had come over because they were feeling down. They bought a condo on the beach in…
My computer has started to run slow and I think it is just filled up with too many bytes of stuff. My mind has begun to run slow and I think it too is filled up with a lot of this and that. A friend is undergoing a long cleansing and she says she is already feeling more energetic here at day 8. I know that I’m on my way to Los Angeles and I…
My neighbor went fishing and brought over some clean trout this evening for us. He said that the bayou he fishes in has not seen any oil yet and that, fingers crossed, it might not. Meanwhile I saw some huge fish jumping out of the bayou today. I saw a great tee in an antique store on Magazine Street with an oil coated pelican that said “I want my life back.” Right now the temperature…
Just when you think all the news that is fit to print is bad news – something like this comes across your screen – here a breaking alert from the New York Times: U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior…
The doctor said that Tin should be speaking at least five words at this age (15 months) and everyone said he will be delayed because he is bilingual. His animal sounds count which is good. Today he said Tete (T’s mother), which he has said several times. The doc said he will have word explosions where he will start saying a bunch of words all of a sudden and then again and again. Right now…
I was cleaning up the backyard after the sprinkler and sandbox fun and one of the angels that sits on the stairs fell over and her legs broke off. It upset me because those angels have come to mean a lot to me – I bought one for Tatjana when I met her and one for me and then when she moved in they came together. The whole house was down for its nap and…
I was reading something somewhere about a woman who saw a turtle in the road and went through great stakes to get the turtle back down into the water only to learn that the turtle had been hiking for most likely days up from the water to go lay her eggs in a safe place and that she had basically just f-d up the turtle’s plan. The moral of the story is to ask the…
When the LaLa was designed conceptually it included a plunge pool much like the one I had had in the villa in Bali. Cool, refreshing and just big enough for a little splash around. Well that was the intent anyway and then there was the levee failure, and then I was carrying the expense of this house solo, and then there was the long slow drain on the economy, and then well, you know how…