You know how it is when you buy a red convertible you suddenly see red convertibles everywhere? Well that is how this whole spiritual gig is rolling out, I was in turmoil, someone handed me Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, then someone mentioned Ram Dass has been helpful to her (plus he’s funny) and so then a long-time source of mine who was laid off after 23 years sent me an article about Byron…
I’m listening to an audio book on my walks with the dogs called BE LOVE NOW, by Ram Dass and Rameshwar Das and in its beginnings it speaks of opening the heart. I always thought I had a big heart except when it’s not but that it was only one of my many pecadillos that would go unnoticed, but after walking this morning, and feeling the dry air that signals the approach of fall here…
The summer heat took a break yesterday for the first time in weeks if not months. The family pool was a tad on the cool side and that was during the bright light of day. I walked the dogs this morning and passed Ms. Marie, 95 years old on the other side of the bayou, she said the air was fresh, and then I passed Ms. Dagmar, also 95 years old, and she was looking…
Here we go, it’s Monday and what’s on the agenda? Everything, right? So how many Mondays does a person have in their lifetime? I venture to say many (if you’re lucky). The trick is to make Monday, funday. And that is what I challenge myself to do today. To have fun and enjoy each and every thing that I do, accomplish, think or act on today. Monday is Funday.
My partner’s mother believes that the percentage of gay people moves up every year a few points, and she might have a point. Just the other day a young friend of ours revealed to me she is gay. She’s headed off to college and she told me this more as a thank you for being a role model for her. Honestly, with three husbands in my back pocket, I am very amused at being a…
I’ve spent a lifetime around very religious people and non religious all in the same gumbo pot. I have fundamentalist Christian friends, some “I’m more Jewish than you” family members and friends, and other (combining my Mormon, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist friends in this group) and have partnered with atheists almost all my life. I’ve observed, lived, discussed, pondered and dissected the religion question every which way and I have to say that what I have…
The neighbor’s daughter is a big fan of Tin’s and Tin has always been a big fan of her. But when he met her friend, he liked the friend even more. So now we are trying to instill in Tin the need to be good to his steady friend (the neighbor) and not to hold the new friend over the old one as if she were better. Hard to do. Also, although his oldest friend…
Last night was meatball and spaghetti night – my absolute favorite meal in the world but only more so as they were not just mere meatballs, my friend made special Southern Italian meatballs that were so tender they melted in your mouth before you could get them off the fork. We had an entire night of eating come to think of it, from the gazpacho I made trying to recreate the Andalusian experience, to the…
When we were in Spain and I was standing there on the sand watching all our friends and Tin playing I was smiling so hard my face hurt. Today I had a similar occurrence. Tatjana saw in the paper that there was a brass band for youth in Louis Armstrong Park and so Tin and I went there and watched the kids playing and Tin with his drumstick as a clarinet for one moment and…
Tin got in the Waldorf School – yay! With the Waldorf method of instruction, the class teacher involves the children in the subject through presentation, story telling, writing, reading, recitation, dramatic acting, painting, drawing, and movement. The teacher follows a rhythm, day to day, which begins with a review of the previous day’s material, further development of the subject matter and then introduction of new material. Day by day throughout the block, the teacher builds…