This morning I woke up filled with thoughts of work that were all tumbled and tossing. I got the dogs and headed out to the park for our walk and it had been raining, the skies were grey, and I was wearing a tee shirt – part of the unnaturalness of this winter in 2012 New Orleans. I looked up, pensive, and saw a break in the clouds and it formed an image that was…
Remember at the root of mystery is the metaphor of God* — So do you want to make God laugh? Make plans. A friend told me his mother says this to him all the time. *”God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.” Joseph Campbell
Listening to the Republican Response to Obama’s State of the Union and have to say, if anyone in that group could take Speech 101 they might not suffer so much from disrespect. But now back to the President of the United States – he’s handsome, he’s articulate, he’s managing hope, he took his victory lap, his not so subtle jibes at the Tea Party and Romney and Congress and he still looks presidential and makes…
The ca ca card placer in City Park has taken to political messages. Today placed on a fresh pile of dog ca ca was a card that said: Gingrich was here.
I was listening to Bill Moyers interview Louise Erdrich as I walked through City Park this morning with the dogs. As we crossed the always dangerous intersection of City Park and Carrollton, tourists from South Carolina joined behind me as I held my hand out to the oncoming traffic. One turned to me and said, “If not at a green light, then when would we cross?” Good question, I responded, then went back to listening…
Going along the same idea of these inane lists that keep popping up EVERYWHERE, I came across this one posted on the Waldorf School’s Facebook page and the final paragraph pretty much summed up the first few weeks of this year’s mental exercises for me: Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but…
A friend of mine recently posted Rules Your Kids Did Not and Will Not Learn In School by Bill Gates on Facebook. Well actually several friends have posted it, but I responded to his because I didn’t like one word of it. It begins with Rule 1 – which says life is not fair, get used to it. As a parent the thought of saying this to my child is absurd because a) I don’t…
Here’s a thought to take into this week – it’s Monday, you open your eyes, you are in a comfortable bed with relatively clean linens, you walk to the bathroom and the toilet is working properly, you brush your teeth with clean water, you head to the kitchen and begin your brew, you look out the window and maybe, depending on where you are, you see a bird in a tree. So begins Monday, not…
I looked at this horoscope this morning and as much as this is formulaic, I still can’t believe how uncanny these are similar to my everyday topics. January 22, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Asking a friend to be honest with you can be tricky. If you are looking for support and end up getting judged, don’t blame the friend. Blame yourself for talking to a preacher type of person instead of someone who knows that no…
I am writing on a iPad on loan from the vantage point of the terrace that is right off my office now our office/bedroom. And the terrace figures prominently in this post as it was the terrace that I insisted on when the LaLa was being conceived and it was the terrace that caused most of the consternation with the myriad carpenter/contractors who worked on the LaLa for so many reasons I cannot begin to…