It seems as if I have spent an inordinate amount of time putting other people’s agenda before my own. I have come to the realization that no one is going to stand up for my agenda except me, so stand tall. I’m going to cultivate a life and work that serves me instead of vice versa. After all I am not the cart, I am the bull.
When we returned from Spain and got a phone call from the now head mistress of New Orleans Montessori, I used my gut to guide me and this is what my gut said, 1) Ms. Albers isn’t there? (she retired July 31st) – why was no transition plan outlined to parents? 2) lead paint on the building next door is causing a crisis that requires moving asap (this sounds like an over reaction – head…
Levine was named as poet laureate for the US and in an article in the NYT an excerpt from one of his poems reveals why: Can you taste what I’m saying? It is onions or potatoes, a pinch of simple salt, the wealth of melting butter, it is obvious, it stays in the back of your throat like a truth you never uttered because the time was always wrong … I love the silence he…
A friend just sent me photographs of us from a recent trip. Why do I look thinner in her photos – I need to change cameras – really!
A therapist told me several times to get my sense of urgency in check, but I told her, I have a job that requires urgency, I have things that have to be done if not by me, then by who, and I have a life I am trying to grab by the horns and live as much as I can so everything appears urgent to me. Exactly, she said. A long time friend of mine…
There was an interesting article in the New York Times about a woman who came across her ex’s blog and she was so drawn to reading about him that she found it addicting. Then the blog went down after the blogger had made some remarks he regretted. I wrote a fellow blogger about whether he might ever think of shutting it down and another friend who writes a blog to see if she would either…
The bumpersticker on the old Toyota Camry said It’s Going To Be Okay and I thought whoever had the presence of mind to put that on their car had a good sense of humor. This morning I started work at 6am so I took the dogs out later than usual, this time wearing my iPod and listening to Ram Das. I was so moved by what he was saying that I felt as if I…
In the survey I posted before leaving for Spain, I posted the numerical results but none of the commentary that appeared – here is the commentary: 5. What has been the best remedy for getting over loss and pain? 46.4% Time 17.9% Friends 14.3% Family 3.6% Art 0 Travel Need to explain: Combo: friends, physical activity, travel/new perspective; and some losses are not really surmountable – losing a parent at a very young age. It’s…
I asked a friend what the sermon was like at mass today and the reading was from when Jesus walked on water and then Peter asked to join him, but when Peter started walking, he fell in. Jesus put his hand out to him to help him. The moral of the story at my friend’s church this morning is that Peter took a risk, which was good, but he didn’t have faith, bad. In keeping…
“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” John B. Priestly Enroute – as my friend Julie says, always the best part, when the whole vacation is ahead of you: Madrid with Alejandro and Ivan and their gift to Tin of a toy clarinet: First night in Zahara de los Atunes – Tin sleeps in a big bed for first time: This apartment is closer to…