I read this quote today and it felt just right: “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer I’m thankful today for all of those people who walked through door number three (the one I wasn’t looking at) and helped me on my journey.…
We went, we stayed, we had to leave early (9pm) when Muses was at Float #10 (hint: a friend was on #21 and we hadn’t even seen the Pussyfooters, the Camel Toe High Steppers, the Bearded Oysters), but we did see Theresa Anderson high up on a flying goose singing Hold Me with a band wearing gotham headgear. Just what we saw was enough for me to say – wow! What a parade. I have…
We are attempting to see our first parade of the season, not that any of us are really 100% better, but we’re good enough. We strategically parked the car by the parade route and are hailing a cab and hoping the weather and we hold up. It’s not that I’m not in the Carnival spirit – I am – but this sickness has me down and so I’m trying to rally for two very blatant…
I can’t believe it is already the middle of February and yet so much has already happened in the first six weeks of the year. Mardi Gras is here and so is the rain and cold and colds. I’m crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s for my institutional work. I’m in the throes of some interesting budding projects with my corporate business. I spoke to a guy today that provided a full circle back…
Today, someone in the throes of a big love hired a plane to write upon the sky that he loves her and added a smiley face. I haven’t seen a skywriter since I was a kid, so it was exciting to watch it over the bayou. Later, a neighbor walked by and we watched a pelican swoop and dive and glide across the bayou. She said, I love that people stop and watch the pelicans,…
The sun is out, it’s quite beautiful and I just made a CD for my neighbor whose Mardi Gras costume has the Concordia as its theme – so Frankie Ford (Sea Cruise), Gordon Lightfoot (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald), etc. You get the idea. For our costumes, I’ve got the materials all laid out and now to just make them! But who can think of anything when the day is gorgeous outside and little…
This morning started off on perhaps a shaky foot having gotten a call in the middle of the night from the Central Lock Up and some sergeant named Blakely. Only I didn’t catch the call, just the voicemail and it took till this morning to realize the area code was 713 – so unless someone in my family found themselves in jail, I’m not sure that call was intended for me. On the other hand,…
Our new life is starting to take its shape and I must admit there are times when things just don’t feel or look familiar and that seems odd. I keep coaching my own self to think more openly and look at the larger picture – that this is the life we are designing for ourselves and it doesn’t follow the rhythm of other peoples’ life no more than it maybe follows any of the patterns…