Signs
I’m doing a mash up here. So a la Oprah, this is something I like and you can purchase it online at DETOUR (website coming): This is something that I’d like to do to people (sometimes):
Author: Rachel
Rachel Dangermond is an impresario and daughter of the revolution.
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RIP – Davy Jones
My teenage heart throb died today at 66 years old – sigh. My lovers (even the fantasy ones) are starting to drop like flies. This video is from 1966 – the year Tatjana was born.
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If you build it, what will they do with it?
I have been noticing the great lawn at City Park. They built this enormous meadow with little gazebos around it that have wooden swings for people to hang out in. After it was installed, a group of handsome, young black men began meeting on the lawn on the weekends to play touch football. On weekday mornings women in their 30s and 40s began meeting there for a boot camp class. And then came the sign.…
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Burn down the filing system
I went for a walk today and there was moist gulf breeze blowing in our unseasonably warm March. As I began my mind started the inevitably filing action that happens when you move away from the rote action of doing – it begins like this, a dream recalled in fragments, a conversation that remains forever unfinished, a thought still trying to be articulated, an old hurt, a sweet memory – as all of this information…
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The new bayou
A neighbor wrote me an email saying it was good to see us sitting on the porch again – he didn’t realize how much he had missed that. I felt the same – come outside and there is the world – friends stopping by, the light reflecting in the water, and Tin growing bigger in my lap. Maple Street Bookstore opened up a store on Ponce de Leon – sort of crazy if you think…
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So much for old man winter
I think old man winter got laid off just like the rest of us, or as I like to use the euphemism – fired. Nobody laid off is getting their job back. So who fired winter? It’s 80 degrees, the hollyhocks are blooming and the basil is bolting. The lettuce has gone to seed having just arrived. It’s a crazy world out there. I was just listening how Leap Year came about because there are…
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No time is wasted
The other day as I was trying to get Tin up and ready and fed and out the door and it was taking an impossibly long time and I had so many other things to do, accomplish, etc. I just took a deep breath and said, “Self, this is what you are doing now. You have a toddler and he moves slowly discovering the world through his own lens and so either you don’t want…
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If you can think it
Visualization is a great tool for guiding yourself along the path of the unknown, but it also works against you – a friend was visualizing a breakup recently and I said if you can see it, you can make it happen so is that what you want? I think sometimes the visualization happens way before we realize it is happening. I remember when my father was at his most explosive to everyone in the family…
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What our little boy is made of
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that is what little boys are made of. I know this only too well after living and breathing boy for almost three years now. It was driven home when I heard my friend whose child is the same age is having a princess party while Tin’s birthday next week will be a music party. What is our little boy made of – jokes he loves to tell, friends…
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Remember when…
Since Tin has taken to want to know about when he was a baby because of his age and because suddenly babies are springing up everywhere, we start a lot of sentences with Remember when … and now so does he. This morning I was in mind of Joseph Campbell’s great quote that we have to be ready to give up the life we had planned for the one that awaits us and nothing is…