At the start of 2012, we sat down on the screen porch in the LaLa to have our New Year’s day traditional meal of black eyed peas, potatoes with a dime hid inside, cabbage, sweets and spirits. I remember seeing the dime and making sure that I gave it to Aleida, my house cleaner who was eating with us as we had just hosted guests on our VRBO site for New Year’s eve weekend. Instead,…
We have friends visiting us from Spain, a mother and her son, and they’ve come at probably not the best time because of all of the changes in process in my life but they are part of the process and so what better time to come and distract us all from the matters at hand. After all, if they had come later, they’d have missed the LaLa and if they had come early, they’d need…
I’ve been driving around looking at houses and areas that I could move to when the LaLa is sold. I started this process with an open mind, not necessarily an open heart. My first knee jerk reaction was to live elsewhere than the bayou because I didn’t know if I could emotionally pass my house every day and see my lost dream. Last night, we saw a limo pull up and a bunch of people…
December 31, 2012 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Try to keep matters of the heart on the up-and-up right now. Being brutally honest is tough sometimes, but it is much more valuable than softening the truth with little white lies. Too often, those little white lies will backfire on you. The more honest you can be, the more you can expect others to be straight with you — so get ready to hear the truth yourself, and be…
Tonight’s the last full moon of 2012 and it’s called the Cold Moon, appropriately so. It’s not cold yet, but it’s going to get cold, dropping twenty degrees in the next few hours. Cold Moon Each month I show you the same face, and you call me a different name. Now you call me Cold Moon, but I am always cold. You call me Long Night Moon, but my nights are always long, bright on…
The purpose of disturbances in our life is to break us from our complacency, to give us a sense of really needing to dive deeper into the constant current of truth that is steady and peaceful. The sale sign went up on the house two days ago and the people began a’comin to see what the LaLa is all about. Most agree it will sell quick. And then what? More will be revealed as my…
We went to Tin’s godparents for Christmas dinner and afterwards, while Tin and Evan noodled around on the piano, we talked about the different forms of intelligence. A friend was talking about how intelligence arrives in myriad ways and there really is no test per se to quantify it. There is aesthetic intelligence as well as musical intelligence as well as … . If you gaged the people in New Orleans solely on their musical…
Merry Christmas! Next, just want to say that the sky is grey black in New Orleans with tornado warnings, but this morning we were on the bayou, where that photo was taken and we have spent the last 24 hours celebrating our traditions – Christmas Eve with German friends and goose, Christmas day with Mexican friends and pozole, and we aren’t done yet, we still have Christmas dinner to go. Whoosh. In the midst of…
I got up before dawn and walked Heidi to go look at that lot on the bayou. I have plans you know. Plans to continue onward and upward. Plans not to get stuck in anyone else’s dreams and anyone else’s vision of how my life should flow. It’s Christmas eve and we have our traditional German goose dinner to look forward to as well as Christmas with godparents and then friends arrive from far flung…