I wrote earlier about the horror of the fake brass bands, but it’s not as if I don’t understand why people come to New Orleans craving an authentic experience. Take this email that my neighbor sent yesterday: Tom is sitting on his balcony playing Honky Tonk Blues with a fellow musician. Tom is playing harmonica and the other is playing guitar. This is truly heaven. The Tom she speaks of is our very own Tom…
I must admit to ignorance when Tin joined the Waldorf School here in New Orleans. I had heard of Waldorf but other than heard the name, I knew little about the school’s philosophy or that of Rudolf Steiner, who I hadn’t heard of at all. It’s possibly a grave oversight that not many people have heard of Steiner as he was one of the giants in philosophy and his work prescient enough that reading his…
Most of us live in New Orleans because the lines between the waking and dreaming world are blurred by the fact that a continuous looping soundtrack is being played in the background of our life. We take this as normal here. And maybe too normal, so that we forget how special it is. Read Evan Christopher’s rants about the state of musicians (and music) in New Orleans today. Some of it ain’t pretty, let me…
I went to get my hair done today at Jupiter where even to this day I continue to call Scott, David, in my mind. It’s because in San Francisco David was my hairdresser for 12 years, and when I moved back to New Orleans, the idea of not having David a phone call away was like telling me there was no bathroom for 800 miles. Panic. So when I met Scott, I knew he was…
I took a walk with a friend this morning as I was walking the dogs and was downloading the state of the union around here, around the LaLa, and around work. I’ve been blessed to start my business and have a client even before I had a logo. And just yesterday spoke to a prospective client in an industry that I have been wanting to enter from this new vantage point. So count your blessings,…
No posts until it is removed from Congress. First time my blog has gone dark since 2004. http://sopaboycott.com/ http://sopastrike.com/strike
The better part of 2012, I have spent reading lists and at the end of the day, they have done nothing if not make me more dissatisfied with the status quo. What I have read that has inspired me have been an array of unlists: a friend’s food blog, a new podcast from Bill Moyers, a blog I stumbled upon, and one I sought out, as well as re-reading the Tao te Ching. And so…
I was trying to explain spirituality to someone who is a self professed atheist. This person didn’t like Martin Luther King’s speech because it had too many religious references. My response is that we – mere mortals – are stuck in the metaphor. The one that was handed down to us so people say words and phrases like God will provide, or Jesus loves me, but when an individual sits down and contemplates his or…
Okay so I didn’t know that Tin had no school and we got up, made lunch, fed him breakfast, got him dressed and drove all the way across town to find out that school was closed. Now I would have thought MLK would be a reason not to have school but since he’s off for a week for Mardi Gras and a week and a day for spring break, it never occurred to me that…