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My meditation this morning: Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell #20 Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade. I alone don’t care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile. Other people have what they need;…
I woke this morning in the grogginess that comes from when your child has not gone to bed till very late and you now have his flu and headache that he has passed onto you. I set about making coffee and cleaning up the butternut squash soup that I had attempted to make yesterday, but the oven wasn’t working so I was making it stove top, with my headache, and not feeling the love. Today…
I was speaking with a woman the other day who described herself as metaphysical. Now mind you, I had only gotten to know this woman just within this month and I was very impressed with her life and what she had done with it, and when she described herself as metaphysical I liked that too because I too have a keen interest in knowledge that is transcendent and reality that is beyond what is perceptible…
Four is my lucky number. And Tin is almost four. He’s turns four on Tuesday, but we had his birthday party in City Park today which was about 40 something degrees while tomorrow is supposed to be 70 something degrees. Nonetheless, it was sunny, with frigid winds, but a good time was passed by all. We played pin the tail on the donkey, pulled ribbons to open the trap of the Lightning McQueen piñata, fed…
I stopped by the post office to pick up Tin’s piñata yesterday and skipped over to the empty field to pick some black eyed susans that grow wild there. People stopped and stared and one guy even asked me what they were and I said, “Blacked eyed susans” – you gonna plant them? – “No, just put them in a vase. I used to pick them as a child.” I love this about New Orleans…
I’ve had one too many close encounters of the asshole kind – I had to ask the other day is it that everyone is an asshole and that’s why I hate them or is it because I’m an asshole that I hate everyone. Well you know I don’t hate everyone but I’ve had some weird freaky encounters lately. Let’s start with the friend who wanted to rub my nose in the fact that I made…
I was walking down the bayou the other day when an elderly man pulled his car over and said as he looked at me in awe: “Did you make that coat?” No, but I think Anthropologie would love that you think so, I thought, but didn’t say. Then I learned from a Zumba sister that Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters (which are the same company) are huge supporters of anti-gay initiatives and anti choice. Gasp. I…
I finally got out of the house and got a walk today and ran over to City Park for my constitutional that has been sorely missing. I am approaching the park from a different perspective as I used to enter from the City Park side and now am going in front and center down Exhibition Boulevard with the New Orleans Museum of Art dead ahead. And lo and behold, I catch in my peripheral vision…
I went to Zumba last night and was glad to get out of the house and off my sofa after being a shut in due to Tin’s flu (that I have been fighting off as much as possible). At the end of each Zumba class comes a moment when everyone circles up to say why they are grateful or what they are challenged with and I must admit even though I could open my mouth…