So it’s early and there is much to do today but let’s start with a Joseph Campbell quote just to kick off a true TGIF – below is my favorite of all quotes by Campbell because it is the greatest struggle that I’ve encountered to let go on what I had planned to happen versus what is happening in my life. It’s not that I am not known for switching gears when I need to…
We’re getting up earlier around this household because the little prince gets up an hour and a half earlier and that means, no rest for the weary. So I was traipsing through the park while it was still dark this morning – do you know that City Park in New Orleans is the fifth largest park in the U.S. and one of the safest? – and I was looking around at all the moss and…
On the drive to school this morning, Tin and I were listening to an audio book of Winnie the Pooh stories and we landed on the one about the heffalump trap. This is a day that has circumnavigated the whole mental globe, it started off with me trying to just be and beating myself up for not being able to – I had awakened at 3 am with ruminating thoughts of did I do this…
I’ve always been attracted to the cerebral types, the ones who seem to be able to retain vast knowledge and pull it all together into a cogent thought, but honestly I’m on another educational path these days. That of trying to simply be. This may sound easy enough but it’s hard. In order to be you have to believe in a few tenets such as 1) you are worthy of simply being and don’t have…
I made it to yoga today and my body begged the question, where have you been old friend? And I responded, old, is the operative word. A week of road warrior left me bloated and stiff much like a poisoned pregnant dog on the side of the road. The message of the day, expanding one’s kula, Sanskrit for community. I likened this to what Rick Reynolds said many years ago when he was going to…
I have a perpetual smile on my face in the past few days brought on by the absurdity of ever thinking I know what is around the corner. I flew miles and miles back to a place I started at twenty two years ago and found what I was not looking for much in the same way I found it back then. It’s always startling to find out just how much you don’t know the…
It’s hard not to start thinking about Mardi Gras since in about a few weeks the holiday season in New Orleans kicks in for real with Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years, and Three Kings’ Day and well Mardi Gras. So last night Tin and I were experimenting with some possible costume ideas. It could be we are going to be the Dead Dangermonds, the punk band that never happened. We need…
I just read an email I drafted October 2010 after attending a large media conference to send someone that I never sent. I’m keeping it because everything in it is more meaningful to me now than it was even then when I was compelled to write it. I then came across this commencement address from Steve Jobs and perhaps his words resonate now more than they did then because of his new awareness and mine.…
Five days in San Francisco and I came back feeling like a tick on a pregnant dog. Lord today, I need to get back to detox and meditation. A friend from Spain sent this photo she had taken of us on the beach, I think it encapsulates what has helped me ride the waves of 2011 that have been fraught with many uncertainties and unanswered questions – the Hanged Man was the most poignant card…
Attending Dreamforce 2011, I listened to Marc Benioff piggybacking off of the Arab Spring calling us to imagine a corporate spring, a CEO spring, a consumer spring. Later, in a conversation with Marc and Eric Schmidt I listened again with fascination to two leaders in the U.S., and thought if you are not interested in watching the Republican debate on Wednesday because the level of mediocrity has fallen to an all time low, then watch…