Tin is at the Waldorf School, which was founded by Rudolph Steiner over 90 years ago to address the needs of a post WWI community, a community that needed to radically reinvent itself. Steiner founded Waldorf – now 1000 schools around the world – as a force for social change. However, he also founded the biodynamic movement as well as an entire philosophy called Anthroposophy. From this philosophy sprang a dynamic and transforming movement that…
I think I inherited a certain disposition from my parents – from my mother, the inability to do what you are told to do, and from my father, being a renegade just because you can. This does not bode well for conforming to other people’s worlds. March 28, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Having power and having control are two very different things … you do not have to be the one in charge to shape how…
IN the category of this too shall pass, I was contemplating my hair loss today as I got up close and personal with a friend as we were both speaking into a microphone. He said, “I’ve been going like lightning speed for so many years now, I’m just done with it.” Amen I thought and so am I. Not to mention my hair that called it quits as well. I was at a parent teacher…
I ran into a fellow dog walker this morning who told me that health is on the inside. She should know she’s a nurse and had worked for a time in cosmetology. We were catching up – she had gone through a lot of job crap years ago and had been listening to my job crap over the past few years. I told her I am trying to unwind from being wound up and when…
Someone asked me if I had defined my writing goals and I said NO. But I must. I am going to define my writing goals: 1) This blog has no purpose other than to provide a creative outlet for me and perhaps a cautionary tale to readers. 2) I will write a book – but I must visualize that book first. Right now I am visualizing too many books, too many topics, and not enough…
I can’t simplify my life if I keep saying yes. I have to say no. It’s the only way. So today, I am practicing NO – if you are anywhere in my vicinity and ask me a question, prepare for No, it is the first and only answer I have today. No. A resounding No. Or perhaps as Tin now says, “No, thank you.”
I was speaking to the wife of a doctor who said that the organization he works for has them scheduling the patients and followup in such a narrow window of care that there is no time even for eye contact. I went ahead and cancelled my dermatologist appointment with the automaton – everyone has time to be human – and scheduled with a real person. I walked over to the Zen center to check out…
Tin and I went to Clever today to see Evan Christopher performing with Roland Guerin, Matt Lemmler and O.C. Davis play some wonderful jazz. Tin stared adoringly at Evan the whole time and no wonder – those cats could play!
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams This was one of the first years since returning from California in 2005 that I did not attend the Tennessee Williams Festival. The reason – dinero no hay. I let lapse my MOMA, NOMA, Ogden, City Park, Pitot House, and everything else membership because charity begins at home when you are starting over. I was reading that Tennessee died in 1983 and…
Too much of anything is no good for you baby – I noticed that Facebook usage spikes during events and then now dies down to a couple of regular posters, while Twitter got so noisy, there was nothing to gain from it, and then Google+ (meh). I sat outside with my friends yesterday on the bayou. I called a friend last night. Old fashioned social media rocks.