Author: Rachel
Rachel Dangermond is an impresario and daughter of the revolution.
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Holy Moly
I made my way back to Mid City Zen for meditation for the first time since coming back home. About time, but oh how my body ached just trying to sit still and think of absolutely nothing for one hour. Daunting. Though it’s the meditation that guides me there, it’s the talk afterwards I enjoy equally. We are still reading and discussing Genjo Koan, which I had left off of when I left for the…
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What happened was …
I rewatched one of my favorite movies last night – What Happened Was – a quirky, first date, psychological drama done by Tom Noonan in 1994. The movie moves like a play and it was actually adapted from Noonan’s play of the same name. The hair point turns of character revelations are so sharp that you (the audience) never have an opportunity to get comfortable with what you assume you know about either character. I…
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Betrayed and resurrected by love
We always circle up after Danielle’s Zumba class and anyone who is feeling particularly grateful speaks up. A woman who has obviously been suffering a lot because her husband ran off with another, spoke up this morning. She said she had started reading Sufi poetry and had read a particular passage that said, you can dance to God or be delivered in a stretcher. Fitting for Zumba. I read this today and was thinking it…
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Let’s get started
So my horoscope today: September 28, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Today you are finally coming to a deeper understanding of a task that has been particularly challenging to you. You’re getting a handle on things and feeling more and more empowered about what you need to do. This will be a wonderful day for you — your power is growing and it feels very good. You are starting to think that you could pretty much overcome…
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Success Is about the Joy I Feel
We took the bike around the bayou and stopped to visit a friend/neighbor. While Tin was playing with the child, my friend handed me a card and said to pick one. The one I picked said on one side: “Success Is about the Joy I Feel.” On the other side it said this: When you are genuinely thrilled by someone else’s success, that means you are right on the track of your own. Success is…
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What do you value?
When Tin started going to Waldorf, I started reading about Rudolph Steiner and it just happened that all of this was happening around the same time the global crisis lit up. Steiner was avant-garde for his time, and sorry to say, even for our time. But he developed the Waldorf School out of a global crisis that was WW1, not unlike the global crisis we are facing today. I’ve been watching the polarity of politics…
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Many heroes and so little time
My avatar has always been Wonder Woman because she was created as a “distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men.” I mean what’s not to love? But I’ve been a long admirer of Secretariat, a once in a lifetime horse. There is a passage from William Nack’s book, Secretariat that reads: Secretariat moved to the…
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Top Ten Great Things about Alopecia
1) You don’t have to shave. 2) No more bikini waxes. 3) Swimming is a breeze. 4) Cuts down on getting ready time. 5) Elicits sympathy in strangers. 6) Conversation starter. 7) No hair stylist appointments. 8) Wig budget goes way up. 9) Wind is no longer bothersome. 10) You look like the Buddha.
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Yom Kippur Joke
Rabbi Ben Simmons was fed up with his congregation. So, he decided to skip the services on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, and instead go play golf. Moses was looking down from heaven and saw the rabbi on the golf course. He naturally reported it to God. Moses suggested God punish the rabbi severely. As he watched, Moses saw the rabbi Ben Simmons playing the best game he had ever played.…