Okay I did not like that film – no chemistry BUT I was in yoga today and Michele’s message was the Gardener – to pull your weeds (do your work) and then plant your seeds (fill your life with what you want) and then sit back and enjoy the flowers. So I was looking at my back and side yard and relishing the fact that pretty soon this little cold spell that we are enjoying…
Local punch line: You know you’re from New Orleans if you didn’t learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.
Loca and I ran through City Park this morning and you could barely tell a storm had been through last night. We caught up with a fellow walker who pointed out the swans nesting on an island in the lagoon. It appeared as if the two white ones were occupying the same space and the black one was sitting as well. They are defending the nest against nutrias, those pesky beasts that are overpopulating the…
Last night a friend of a friend came by to visit, he was here from Ancona, Italy at a cardiologist convention. His first time in New Orleans. He had flown in and been holed up in the Monteleone for three days and had one evening free. Conferences – pishaw – what kind of life is that? We talked about his specialty, cardiac intervention – stents, angioplasty, etc. I told him my two brothers had stents…
All those hours spent practicing in front of the mirror and glass reflection of the stove paid off for Tin when he took the stage with the big guys. He bought into his diva status and needed a time out a little bit after the set, but for the moment he was indeed channeling Louis. Someone asked him his name the other day and he said, “Louis Armstrong.”
I’m going to give one more shout out to Sound Cafe’s Silence is Violence and the work they’re doing. I just received this notice of a lesbian couple’s house burned down and QUEERS written on the side of the garage left standing. Wouldn’t it be grand if everyone were working for change instead of spewing hate?
At noon we went to Sound Cafe to hear Mark Clark’s Bent But Not Broken played live with Paul Sanchez and Margie Perez sitting in – all proceeds of the sale of this song go to Silence is Violence, an organization that is grassroots and fundamental to trying to heal and help this city’s soul. T has been taking Tin to the Music Clinic there on Tuesday nights and so when the band was organizing…
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James. We had a week that saw a thunderstorm to end all storms, and then a cool spell but it was a tease as summer came yesterday and let’s just forget about Spring – unless you call high 80s spring weather. As usual, Spring in New Orleans means one word – FESTIVALS –…
I just hung up with an long-time source of mine and it is a nice way to end the week. One thing I was telling a colleague is that if I have not been on the phone with a source in a while, I get wiggy. Hard to explain but you get addicted to the connections and when you are disconnected you’re like a fish out of water. I always said that I was born…
I’m starting a list of music and books that I want and why oh why did I miss this guy at Blue Nile last Saturday? Could someone tell me? But the good thing is the universe is providing a lot of what I need for free – such as a friend from Boston who sent me Poser and a friend across the bayou who lent me her copy of Zeitoun. And I finally fixed our…