The last couple of weeks, months, years have felt like a maniac’s ride at the Carnival but I’ve decided that instead of Wonder Woman who I envisioned I was embodying that in truth I am the Cat in the Hat and while I can stand on a ball, but wait that’s not all, I can juggle a cup, a saucer, a cake, a teapot, a rake and best of all I can fan a fan…
I was reading about an entire family who pay it forward and it made me think of someone I used to work with a long time ago – the person was described as “believing there is only one pie and limited pieces available” so the person was constantly in fear there would not be enough. If you approach the world that there is plenty to go around I think the world enlarges around you.
I was walking to the festival on Saturday and on Grand Route St John stopped behind a man who was blocking our path and staring up at a tree. He said to me as we went around him, “There are lot of squirrels around lately.” And I said, “If you were a squirrel wouldn’t you want to be here in this neighborhood?” Without missing a beat he said, “Sure, there are plenty of nuts around.”…
On Saturday, Tin and I decided to stroll over to the Brew Ha Ha on Bayou Road and take a break from all the action and I’m so glad we did. We met the cute young man who is organizing the Broad Street businesses and who started this festival three years ago, the first two it was on top of the old Schwegmann’s that is now going to be the new location of a roof…
I was lighting the candle by the Yemaya statue this morning and thinking of my beautiful mom. In the last 48 hours, I’ve had a few people come up to me and hug me and say that they are proud of me (owing to the Gala we just had for Re-Bridge). I was reading earlier in the Te of Piglet that positive attracts positive and that if you tell a child they are brave, resourceful…
It’s hard to get to perfect, but perfect is amorphous and undetermined and most of all perfect is fluid. But if you were going to have a gala, and you were going to pick a house, any house, pick the Sanctuary on Bayou St. John with an oak tree that rivals any in the city, and then go ahead and have Commander’s Palace make my favorite dish of all time, grillades and grits, and then…
I bought a box of matches and it said GREENLIGHT on them. Who knew that I would get the name right from the get go. Meanwhile, I began working with Greenlight’s first client and I told them they remind me of where independent research was when I got into it 16 plus years ago – on the ascend. Really this is going to be big and I love being a part of something that has…
Let’s say there is a silver lining under every adversity. Just go with me on this one. Now think what it might be like if your home was destroyed and the city you love was under water and the government that you depended on and supported all your life was ineffective and indifferent and your marriage was strained and your friends and family were dispersed, but wait there’s more – you found yourself in Arlington…
This morning over my deliciously brewed pu-erh tea, I sat on the screen porch and read how a twenty-year-old beat his parents to death with a hammer. News of the day. In the meantime, to my right was a list of things to do to get ready for Re-Bridge’s Gala, on my left was an outline of the white paper I’m writing for my client, and in the back of my mind was a fellow…