Everyone kept asking me for the plan, or wanted to make a plan, for my birthday, but I wanted to keep it loose. I plan enough of my life and birthdays should involve some spontaneity. So when a friend said she was going to UAL, I said, count me in, that’s where I’d like to start my day. So three of us caught the streetcar and headed to the Quarter. We met another friend who…
I woke this morning and was 54 years old – fifty four revolutions around the great big sun – and I woke with a smile on my face. Thanks to Facebook about a million people remembered my birthday – a far cry from when I was 24 years old or 34 years old or 44 years old and I would wait for my mom’s call, my grandmother’s birthday card with $5 to arrive, and my…
I read this passage from The Power of Now this morning, and have to say this Tolle guy is onto something: Wherever You Are, Be There Totally See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.…
I neglected to mention that the first guy who hugged me last night was Washboard Chaz’s son. This happened right as my friend was enumerating all the things he loves about New Orleans, the first being that someone neither of us knew had just walked up to us and within two minutes said he was going home to smoke some weed. Gotta love New Orleans – even though we are deeply flawed, or possibly because…