God is speaking to me through my horoscopes on Yahoo – this is really interesting: April 22, 2013 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Growth is a good thing, but you should take a break from pushing yourself right now. Today will not be best spent challenging yourself or starting any difficult (if revelatory) conversations. Settle in to a routine right now, and find comfort in doing the same things in familiar patterns. There is something to be said…
Tin has to bring a poem in his pocket to school this week and so I picked this one for him: Mother to Son BY LANGSTON HUGHES Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And…
A friend came by today to walk with me over to the Earth Day celebration down on the bayou. A friend I rarely see but think of often. We moseyed around and looked at all the booths, trying on funky hats, getting an ice cold Bud Light and Woody’s fish tacos and then sitting on the cool grass by the bayou and enjoying the perfect spring weather. It’s interesting to me how easy it is…
After meditation this morning at Midcity Zen Center, we continued with the study of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. We read a section on bowing and how through bowing you are stripping away any sense of self-centeredness you possess. I said that I had been a little distracted by all the bowing when I had gone to the one and only service there. Having been brought up Jewish and having so many rituals…
I went not once, but four times to the Fortier Park Festival yesterday. It’s a block from my home in a triangle park that Bob McGuire (aka the Mayor of the neighborhood) brought back from the depression of the 2005 Federal Storm by using $2000 his company donated — he gave $500 to his son’s school and took the $1,500 and turned it into $15,000 by throwing the first annual Fortier Park Festival that now…
So all of you parents out there trying to raise your child gender neutral – good luck. I was watching Tin play as well as the other kids earlier this week and the first grade boys were all playing together and the first grade girl came back to the adults sulking. Girls sulk when they are not getting the attention from boy(s) they want. They do this at 50 or at 5 years old –…
Already next week is full. How is that again? Yes, next week’s calendar is full and it hasn’t even arrived yet. Playdates galore for Tin, work goals for me, and Jazz Fest starts on Friday. My Jazz Fest junkie days are gone, perhaps, because I only have a ticket for each weekend and I know the second weekend is Saturday, but the first is still up in the air as to which day I’ll go.…
I used to live on the North Shore in Covington in the 1980s. I had bought a house with my first husband off of Old Military Road because I was on a quest to recapture the joy I had known staying in the country with my grandmother when I was young. I was also running a lot during those days and had a great route that took me down a road that had woods on…
I think the issue with writing a blog and being a witness to your own life, is that sometimes you come home, and the house is quiet. The only thing you hear is the chatter in your head and it may be the same conversation your self has had with your self over the last few days that even meditation has been unable to burn and disperse. And you sit here and you wonder at…