We barely have spring and fall in New Orleans, it is more like between hot and freezing and that is the season we are finding ourselves in right now. Oh lovely day! The nights on the porch watching the light reflected in the bayou are magical and the mornings, well getting up before dawn to prepare ourselves for the rise of the Prince now that he gets up at 7am for ‘chool (no s’s please)…
I went to sleep last night with a full moon hanging over the bayou and woke to a rosy dawn – signs all is okay. The Times Picayune’s history archive the other day was about how Rex, the first official Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans, pressured the city to close down on Fat Tuesday, which began the real Carnival season in New Orleans over a hundred years ago. This morning the front page of…
I woke this morning feeling as if I was floating on a gold radiance tracing a beautiful journey to destination que será, será and behind me were streets with names like shoulda and coulda and in front of me were bridges that abruptly end, and so I did what I gave me pleasure. I made a cup of strong pur uhr and went on the front porch of the LaLa and watched the sun come…
Tao te Ching #48 In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can’t be gained by interfering.
We woke late. I made pancakes. Read the New York Times on the front porch. Neighbors stopped to visit and sit for a spell.
Imagine someone is telling you this grand, epic story, and you keep impatiently asking but what happened next or how did it end? Yesterday, we started with toddler apocalypse, out of a good morning came chaos trying to get ready to go to another toddler’s birthday party, I DON’T WANT TO through streams of tears and anguished cries, one hour of this and both of us saw our nerves fray into thin whispery strands barely…
My horoscope today said that I have a great team of friends who are here to support me, after all it said, that is what friends are the people who don’t judge you but rather they bring out the best in you. So when a colleague/friend decided to go back to divinity school and hang out his shingle as a life coach, I knew when we were catching up that it was more than just…
I’ve spent the week on Detox to come back down to earth. Mornings have been a blender with low fat yogurt, chia seeds, flax seeds, blueberries and strawberries, a dash of local honey, and some aloe juice. Lunch has been vegetarian mainly a mix of edamame, corn, red onion and red pepper tossed with rice vinegar with a splash of sesame oil, broccoli and carrots steamed tossed with lemon juice and flax seed oil, and…
The week was bookended by Labor Day on Monday and a summary from my new Life Coach on Friday and that about sums up a week that was pretty damn informative. In the end, I figured out a lot of things (with help), but what I wasn’t prepared for was to have the week capped by Tin picking up his ukelele and busting into song – how appropriate it would be You Are My Sunshine,…