Before I sign off into my night death to reawaken into the life that I inhabit, I thought of Tom Waits singing I Wish I Was In New Orleans and this is because a couple I saw on our walk home from the grocery store today said they are leaving New Orleans again because the Universe had pointed them away (again) and I know how most of us here are always leaving New Orleans at…
Today, I was on my way home listening to WWOZ and the music was Evan Christopher’s The Remembering Song from his album of the same name. The DJ came on afterwards and said, “I ran into Evan the other morning at Louis Armstrong Park and he had his godson on his shoulders and they had just been speaking with Herbie Hancock.” HIGH LOW – Before Tin was coming back from school I cleaned out the…
I was reading a book review in the New York Times of Anne Enright’s Making Babies and this was priceless: It’s actually not that easy to destroy your baby, Enright concludes, and she offers a perversely comforting thought for the worrywarts among us — usually we’re the ones who need protecting. “You must always check a silence,” she writes, “not because the baby might have choked, but because it is in the middle of destroying…
I found out who the mysterious C is, who left me flowers by the site of my natural disaster, and it all made perfect sense. It came from my neighbor around the corner who was spreading some love around the neighborhood. A mitzvah for her, for us. Today on the way home from Franklinton, we got off at our exit and a car was broken down with a women standing by the trunk speaking to…
Oh the mother lode, it is possibly the weightiest topic we could ever try to articulate. Tin and I drove across the lake to see my aunt and cousins and feast. They know how to put on a spread – roast beef, corn on the cob boiled in coconut milk, cornbread salad, green beans, two kinds of potato salad, rolls, and a dessert table that was buckling under its own weight. I ate too much!!…
I woke this morning after a long day’s journey through conversation and pizza and there was a pair of panties on the floor, only they were almost small enough for a barbie doll and I realized they belonged to my friend’s daughter who had been in the pool. Sign of the times. I read in the NYT that Loudon Wainwright said if families didn’t break up there would be no need for art and so…
I took some interesting pics in the last day and a half and will post them when I remember to bring my phone up to where my computer is. It will happen. My friend with her beautiful blog posts Wordless Wednesdays that are always so beautiful they make you want to live her life. But I digress. Last night, I went to sleep in a tizzy, woke up to write, and went back to bed…
I woke way too early, I went back to sleep, and my horoscope for today had a good message so I took it and ran with it. May 12, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) If your life is a circle (and you’re standing in the middle of it), are you going to spend energy turning around, giving equal focus to your past, present, and future? Of course not — if you did, you would get awfully dizzy…
“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.” ~ Hafiz
Yesterday, I had mapped out a plan for the afternoon into the evening. I was going to go and get paint to fix the front porch that I had had repainted last year, but then the repair man had set the tanks of termite poison on either side of the porch and left two large drum circles that had eaten off the paint that had now attracted debris and bugs and two circles of yuck.…