I was on my way down the bayou this morning towards City Park and I ran into a friend who has been having some troubled times. He said he is coming out of an eight month hole via medication. Now he’s trying to put the pieces of his life together again. Only, very similar to me, because he and I have had these discussions walking in the park for years now, he really doesn’t want…
I’ve been in the weeds with work and hardly able to catch my breath the past weeks upon returning home from our two-month sojourn. And it seems as if the world has sped up yet again, just in time for the fast moving holiday season that begins here in New Orleans end of October and goes all the way through Jazz Fest. Which means zoom – there it is. So I’m trying to get my…
I’ve always considered that my place of worship is City Park. I’m not sure when it became so, but I did realize one day that any day I did not walk through the park was a day without my soul being inspired. This morning, I was walking through the park and looked across the lagoon to the Peristyle and saw a gospel choir robed in purple and gold lifting their voices to the sky. On…
The morning began like this: And quickly segued into this: All because the weekend had been filled with too much of this: I was behind on everything, including the stuff I do for free: The tasks kept piling up, a swim lesson was added at the last gasping minute: And I passed a house on Tchoupitoulas street that had a message for me: So I came home and regrouped in my comfort zone: Happy New…
I didn’t realize when I was “let go” from my job of many years that it would be the best gift someone had ever given me. So it was easy for me to tell my friend, Bill Lavender, that his “letting go” would be the best thing that could happen to him. Bill instantly did what Bill should have done a while ago and that is hang his shingle out, or rather dust it off,…
We watched a fabulous animated film last night called, Sita Sings the Blues, which I highly recommend. You can get it on Netflix, but you can even see it free here. The animation is so original and imaginative that it draws you into this parallel life, the modern one and the historical one (Ramayana). But the film itself was not made without turmoil. The artist Nina Paley used her own life trials for the modern…
When we were sitting on the beach in Zahara de los Atunes, we looked up at the 2:00 pm sun and saw this incredible phenomenon. The sun was surrounded by a dark black circle and surrounding the darkness was a beautiful rainbow. This phenomenon I later learned is called a solar halo and it was eery in the sense of awe and wonder and also had many of us questioning if it were the end…
First, let’s start with shana tovah u’metukah, which in Hebrew is a wish for a good and sweet new year. Symbolically, we’ll eat apples with honey in this house – this is tradition. And on Rosh Hashanah, which starts tonight and also starts a ten day trek to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, it will be all about teshuva or returning to what is pure inside of us and realizing where we might have…
I was just reading that the mystery producer of the anti-Islam film is a Coptic Christian living in California. He said Jews backed him by giving him $5 million to make the film (lie easily detected in that the film looked like it was made on $5000); the guy lives in Cairo but also in the U.S. so now it’s America’s fault that this film is out there; and in the meantime, so his insensitivity…
I was just speaking to someone who said she remembered me from ten years ago – very interesting – a decade ago I was doing the same type of calls and looking to have the same interviews. Some things don’t change. Meanwhile, another person called and was saying that I should write down all the cute things that Tin does because I’ll forget when we’re older – so okay, list of cute: Yesterday, butt naked…