The days are getting longer and hotter but that just means summer is around the corner, or actually standing on the corner peaking around the telephone pole. I was walking to City Park and stopped to talk to my new neighbor who bought the historic house on the corner – he was bringing down an enormous pecan tree (he wasn’t, the tree company was) because it was rotten. Yes those pecan trees grow gigantic but…
What do you want to look at? Yesterday, I was riding around with a friend looking at possible trees to replace the fallen palm in the side yard. I think brugmansia or angel’s trumpet (horn of plenty) is the answer. But as we drove around and looked at other gardens, down a side street of the Bywater came a girl on a bike carrying a large gleaming brass tuba. We had just been talking about…
I went to walk the dogs in City Park this morning but not, of course, at first having a conversation about the front porch rotting off and why it needs to be replaced with something very expensive and why wood was a poor choice and why the person who built it used the wrong nails and on and on and on. And I get nasty now in my responses – really? the person who built…
I went to walk the dogs today in City Park and a friend/neighbor was on her way there and so we joined forces and did a major walky talky – she’s older and her child is grown but it doesn’t mean her mothering has ended as she is now a grandmother with lots to do. But where we are is familiar – looking at the rest of our life which would most likely span a…
My neighbor went shrimping yesterday – know what I was doing yesterday afternoon – peeling shrimp. Yes, indeed.
Interview with self: Interviewer: I’ve noticed you’re more motivated to give up cigarettes, exercise, and work on projects. When did this change? Self: I’ve grown tired of myself, the constant whining, the lethargy, the no end in sight mode. I was coughing like a 40 year seasoned smoker, I was tired just trying to lift Tin, and work, I was so meh over work I was beginning to fantasize about a life without work rather…
My lucky number has always been four, and this morning as I was walking the dogs through City Park, I was lost in abstract thought, grooving to the smells of some tree or bush when I saw a lucky penny. I stopped to pick it up after checking to make sure it was on heads and right then four green parrots flew from the ground up that I hadn’t noticed. I said to myself –…
When I took Tin for his 3-year check up the doctor asked if he is telling stories. And I said yes, we tell stories a lot. She asked, does he tell them? “Yes,” I said. There is no doubt in my mind that if you read to a child their world will enlarge. I remember when a client of mine told me he didn’t read fiction and I said, “Why not?” He said he was…
Someone’s father is home from the hospital, someone had a baby, someone is pregnant, someone just found out he is going to be a father, someone celebrated a 70th birthday, someone is in the hospital waiting to come home, someone is … I started working with the life coach yesterday and she asked me to visualize a giant outdoor billboard whose message would reach many people – what would it say? My response: “It’s going…