The Dalai Lama is going to be here in two weeks and the city is going wild with prayer flags. I hung mine out by standing on the top of the cab of my truck to reach the tree branch. Yay Dalai Lama, yay prayer flags, yay New Orleans healing:
Everyone kept asking me for the plan, or wanted to make a plan, for my birthday, but I wanted to keep it loose. I plan enough of my life and birthdays should involve some spontaneity. So when a friend said she was going to UAL, I said, count me in, that’s where I’d like to start my day. So three of us caught the streetcar and headed to the Quarter. We met another friend who…
I woke this morning and was 54 years old – fifty four revolutions around the great big sun – and I woke with a smile on my face. Thanks to Facebook about a million people remembered my birthday – a far cry from when I was 24 years old or 34 years old or 44 years old and I would wait for my mom’s call, my grandmother’s birthday card with $5 to arrive, and my…
I read this passage from The Power of Now this morning, and have to say this Tolle guy is onto something: Wherever You Are, Be There Totally See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.…
I neglected to mention that the first guy who hugged me last night was Washboard Chaz’s son. This happened right as my friend was enumerating all the things he loves about New Orleans, the first being that someone neither of us knew had just walked up to us and within two minutes said he was going home to smoke some weed. Gotta love New Orleans – even though we are deeply flawed, or possibly because…
So to cap off the perfect day of walking on sunshine even on a rainy day, I say this about that – I spent hours meeting with an old friend about work stuff and life stuff and good stuff and while sitting at the bar at Serendipity, a man came over and wanted to hug me several times and tell me I am beautiful. Okay, stop it already I said aloud but inside, I’m like,…
When you’re lost everything is a sign, and so read this and weep. I woke up this morning without the negative tape playing in my head that says YOU ARE UTTERLY ALONE AND HAVE MISSED THE BOAT AND WILL DIE THAT WAY and instead I heard the birds chirping. I meditated, had my coffee, and then wrote a post on my new blog and immediately had a response – read: there are people out there…
It used to be that you could tell me that you wanted to sit up till the wee hours of the morning and debate the population boom while drinking bourbon and I wouldn’t flinch. I wouldn’t. Now I’m hard pressed to know what I even want to do on my birthday because it’s out with the old and in with the new (and I just happen to be part of the former). A friend posted…
My horoscope has not changed for over a week. I think it is trying to drive home this point. April 29, 2013 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Growth is a good thing, but you should take a break from pushing yourself right now. Today will not be best spent challenging yourself or starting any difficult (if revelatory) conversations. Settle in to a routine right now, and find comfort in doing the same things in familiar patterns. There is…
I got myself all worked up about housing yet again and then last night tried to take it down a couple of notches. What am I waiting for? Entertaining friends all day and night yesterday, I had candles lit in the living room; I watched the streams of people moving in and out of Jazz Fest in the pouring rain and in the sunshine; I cooked breakfast for friends, served dinner for friends. In other…