The chops
If I coulda I woulda written this post, but I didn’t, and I’m sure glad Chris did.
Year: 2012
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Open for business
My blood work came back and said I had too much thyroid in me now and it is suppressing rather than replacing my thyroid – so my doctor called (while on his vacation) and ordered a new prescription. He said we’ll see how this works and go from there. He asked me how I’m doing and I said, “It’s hard to tell what is external and what is internal – I just have this “whatever”…
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How good it is
Last night, we celebrated our power being on by sitting on the front porch with friends – I know, it makes no sense – but there it is. And then we came in and slept the sleep of the dead, the dead that sleep in a/c that is, a/c set to 75 degrees cool. We even put a sheet over us – it was lovely. Tin didn’t wake up until mid morning – he found…
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My two cents
I really feel that all politicians are fractured in some way. But I’m just going to say this and I will say it only here and only once because honestly I hate all this political divisiveness – it’s toxic. There was a day when a Republican stood for fiscal conservatism and social liberalism – but those days have long been gone and that is why I vehemently oppose the Republican agenda. I do not believe…
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The romantic in me must be slayed
I took the dogs for a walk after the storm and it started pouring down rain. But hey, I don’t have hair, so what do I care? I was just going to get wet and either you are wet from the heat and humidity or you are wet from warm rainfall. We walked down the bayou and a pelican flew by. Out of season. The trees were down, the houses boarded up, there was a…
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The I of the Storm
I just ordered a glass of champagne and was given a bowl of assorted snacks in the Lowes Hotel on Poydras. There is a/c, there is WIFI, there are cocktails and food. I’m now a believer that I can survive anything if every once in a while someone gave me some luxuries. A friend is here with her son, Tin’s friend, and they are up in the room jumping on the beds in the a/c.…
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We got back to a hurricane
They cancelled the flights into NOLA and we were able to slip onto one at the last moment. And home we came in a plane full of Red Cross workers on their way in to deal with Isaac. New Orleans was desolate, no cars on the street, houses and businesses boarded up, and a sky that looked like it was painted on a stretched canvas. The wetlands were Monet’s, the mighty Mississippi river belonged to…
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Coming and going, and growing
Today we start the trek back to Madrid (through Frankfurt) and then Monday it is the long flight home to New Orleans. Tanja always talks about how much kids grow up in the summer, especially on vacation, on the coast, like both of us grew up with our parents. Tin has learned how to get his own milk from the fridge and pour it into his glass, how to swing on a big swing alone,…
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What’s the question?
I know the life of a zen bunny is to relinquish all thoughts to a more esoteric question – what, when, how, where and why all lead to a grey area. I know the Hurricane in the making – Isaac – how appropriate that on hearing of a hurricane arriving at the same time as me in New Orleans made me only say – whatever – unlike the reaction I had to the Hurricane that…
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The shadow self
Last night, after everyone had gone to bed, I sat on the terrace for a moment of reflection and across from me, a woman sat on her terrace, a dark silhouette staring down at me. The image unnerved me because she seemed to almost be a reflection – sitting quietly, alone, waiting for a benign breeze to help her make it through the night. We’re in Zagreb, there is a heat wave. In front of…