This is a round up of all the #Tinism’s I have posted on Twitter – going back through some of these makes me realize how special my son has been from the get go. @RachelDanger 6 Jan #Tinism: “I did NOT hit my funny bone, Mom. This is a sad bone.” @RachelDanger 21 Dec Does not bode well – #Tinism: “Mommy, there is a huge mess in your room.” @RachelDanger 18 Dec #Tinism: Mom, your…
A friend sent me an Abundance Prayer* and she told me how when she was growing up she didn’t buy into any of the religious doctrine she was introduced to but then she came to understand her own spirituality. She searched for others who believed in the God in all of us – in the oneness that connects us to each other and to all beings everywhere. She made it her life’s practice to become…
Today is my father’s birthday, he would have been 88 years old today. He was a bull of a man and the first man I ever loved. I don’t speak about my dad often and perhaps that is because he died in 1985 and has morphed into many different men since then. At the moment when he died, he was the equivalent of God to me. He was the be all of my universe. Later…
I confess to the gloomiest holiday period I’ve experienced in a long time at the end of last year. The last time I had the blues like these was back in the pivotal year-end of 2005. And both times were after a serious transition year. 2005 and 2013 – while the rest of the world moves on a seven year cycle, mine must be an eight year one. I think I’ve spent an eternity hurrying…
I have noticed you since I moved in. I wondered who fed you. I like to watch you tip toe across my backyard. You always dart across the street. I’ve thought of feeding you but you look well fed. You come from under my neighbor’s house, or mine. I’ve seen you on both sides of our street. Yesterday, I saw you dead. Blood pooled underneath you in the middle of the street. I looked for…
I’ve listed several revolutions that are going to occur in the new year and one of them is stillness. I’ve got plenty of lists for doing and so my revolutions list is about being and ways of being. That said, last night I went to two 12th night parties as we ushered in Carnival season in New Orleans. The first was at a friend’s new apartment in the Quarter right along Pirate’s Alley. Walking up…
Let’s face it, you’re not going to have a perfect year and all of the things on your To Do list are not going to get done, and someone’s going to get hurt, and you’re going to wake up one morning and wonder what is it all about. This will happen in 2014. But there will also be love, profound love, joy, kisses, delicious food, hot showers, a child laughing and most of all music…
I spoke with my friend, Possum, this morning as he was on his way to brunch with his fiancé and his parents in the Big Apple. What I love about him is from the moment he was assigned to work for me back in the day, we knew we were kin. And this is what I love about him the most: “Rachel, you know what to do. You always know what to do.” This is…
..”be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. LIVE THE QUESTIONS NOW. Perhaps, you will gradually, without noticing, live along some distant day into the answer.”…