I was thinking today how easy it is for us down here in New Orleans to let the moment carry us away and to forget about what just happened and what could happen next. I think I was always a little busy preparing and planning for my future that I didn’t live in my present, and now having witnessed some present unlike any other I’m not sure it is worth planning for a future that…
We woke late as we didn’t really go to sleep until 6am from tossing and turning all night. But I managed to get out to spin class just in time to find out the bikes were all taken. Damn, it was so nice outside I didn’t sweat it. Came home and made pancakes for T and T2 and then we all headed to the French Quarter to enjoy the day. We ran into the same…
We went out on Saturday afternoon to celebrate our anniversary by being Quarter rats and started at Pravda, a bar that T said she would own if she wanted to change careers. Then we headed over to hear music in the Marigny stopping in at Spotted Cat to see Panorama Jazz Band and then looking into DBA that was waiting for John Boutte to start, and then down to Three Muses, which was also waiting…
Three years ago, standing on the corner of Mimi’s in the Marigny on Fat Tuesday in the midst of thousands of people in costumes while I was flanked by angels, I saw someone out of the corner of my eye and from that moment on my life has not been my own: – my journey alone was derailed and I hopped on a train to Wow land that has brought a language I never heard…
The other day in court out of 35 potential jurors, 5 were gay. 1 out of 7. At the Aquarium the other day, 1 in 3 families were blended (black and white, Asian and white, etc.) The world is turning.
I dreamed last night that Tin was kidnapped – horrific. I had a hard time shaking the dream and realized later that it came from being out earlier and asking a friend to watch Tin while I went in back to reheat his food. That need to not let him out of my sight is embedded in my DNA. Just like the pelican outside on the bayou this morning, that keeps nosediving into the bayou…
I’ve been working on mind control lately and the reason why is I have tendencies. The one that had me in its grip middle of last year is that my economic future was solely relying on one thing and without that one thing, I would lose everything. This sort of catastrophic thinking comes naturally to me as it goes hand in glove with my type of anxiety. Ruled by the thought that builds on the…
Last night while Tin was eating his falafel and I was engrossed in a conversation with Tatjana he held up the bitten falafel and said “Crescent Moon!” and sure enough he had bitten it into the shape of a crescent moon.
Blekica (pronounced blech eetz a) and Bam Bam have not gotten along since Blekica moved into the LaLa. Blekica refuses to acknowledge Bam Bam’s tenure here and has made it almost impossible for him to feel comfortable anywhere in the house. So Bam Bam has been trying to either steal into our bedroom at night or stay out on the porch where he can sleep undisturbed because this is what cats do with their lives…
That pelican I saw in the bayou early October was the harbinger of this bad winter. Thanks fine feathered friend.