I made it to yoga today and my body begged the question, where have you been old friend? And I responded, old, is the operative word. A week of road warrior left me bloated and stiff much like a poisoned pregnant dog on the side of the road. The message of the day, expanding one’s kula, Sanskrit for community. I likened this to what Rick Reynolds said many years ago when he was going to…
I have a perpetual smile on my face in the past few days brought on by the absurdity of ever thinking I know what is around the corner. I flew miles and miles back to a place I started at twenty two years ago and found what I was not looking for much in the same way I found it back then. It’s always startling to find out just how much you don’t know the…
It’s hard not to start thinking about Mardi Gras since in about a few weeks the holiday season in New Orleans kicks in for real with Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years, and Three Kings’ Day and well Mardi Gras. So last night Tin and I were experimenting with some possible costume ideas. It could be we are going to be the Dead Dangermonds, the punk band that never happened. We need…
I just read an email I drafted October 2010 after attending a large media conference to send someone that I never sent. I’m keeping it because everything in it is more meaningful to me now than it was even then when I was compelled to write it. I then came across this commencement address from Steve Jobs and perhaps his words resonate now more than they did then because of his new awareness and mine.…
Five days in San Francisco and I came back feeling like a tick on a pregnant dog. Lord today, I need to get back to detox and meditation. A friend from Spain sent this photo she had taken of us on the beach, I think it encapsulates what has helped me ride the waves of 2011 that have been fraught with many uncertainties and unanswered questions – the Hanged Man was the most poignant card…
Attending Dreamforce 2011, I listened to Marc Benioff piggybacking off of the Arab Spring calling us to imagine a corporate spring, a CEO spring, a consumer spring. Later, in a conversation with Marc and Eric Schmidt I listened again with fascination to two leaders in the U.S., and thought if you are not interested in watching the Republican debate on Wednesday because the level of mediocrity has fallen to an all time low, then watch…
I just returned from San Francisco, the land of plenty, bounty abounds everywhere you look from brains to tchotchkes, it’s all going on there. And yet, I haven’t seen so many homeless people in a long time. I watched a man fixing his cardboard box shelter and thought of Managua in the 1960s and the people sleeping in cardboard boxes. During that period Somoza reigned as if landless peasants were no different than rats in…
Went to Cafe de la Presse for one more of those bowl filled decaf lattes before I’m off to SFO to hopefully make my way home. Why is it that this time of year – Southern Decadence – that a storm is threatening Louisiana. It’s like it’s Ground Hog Day every Labor Day Weekend. Meanwhile, I went out with my boyfriends here in San Francisco for a night of Western Decadence and we found ourselves…
I was reading a NYT article about a film about an adopted son called “I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive” and of course, like any adopted parent, I read with hesitation as it described the son’s turmoil and anger over having been given up for adoption. Yes I cannot know the future or for that matter Tin and how he will be with himself and his situation. He has a lot to digest when he…
Last night in the lobby while my friend was getting her tarot cards read, I opened a fortune cookie offered to me and it said, You have a basic need for solitude some of the time. True that. I’ve been away from home for nearly a week now and attending a conference with 45,000 others doesn’t sound much like being alone, and having work related dinners or events every night doesn’t sound much like being…