When Tin started going to Waldorf, I started reading about Rudolph Steiner and it just happened that all of this was happening around the same time the global crisis lit up. Steiner was avant-garde for his time, and sorry to say, even for our time. But he developed the Waldorf School out of a global crisis that was WW1, not unlike the global crisis we are facing today. I’ve been watching the polarity of politics…
My avatar has always been Wonder Woman because she was created as a “distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men.” I mean what’s not to love? But I’ve been a long admirer of Secretariat, a once in a lifetime horse. There is a passage from William Nack’s book, Secretariat that reads: Secretariat moved to the…
1) You don’t have to shave. 2) No more bikini waxes. 3) Swimming is a breeze. 4) Cuts down on getting ready time. 5) Elicits sympathy in strangers. 6) Conversation starter. 7) No hair stylist appointments. 8) Wig budget goes way up. 9) Wind is no longer bothersome. 10) You look like the Buddha.
Rabbi Ben Simmons was fed up with his congregation. So, he decided to skip the services on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, and instead go play golf. Moses was looking down from heaven and saw the rabbi on the golf course. He naturally reported it to God. Moses suggested God punish the rabbi severely. As he watched, Moses saw the rabbi Ben Simmons playing the best game he had ever played.…
Wednesday is radio silence so I can see about getting entered into the Book of Life and clean up my list of people who have pissed me off and get off other people’s list of who I have pissed off. So tomorrow when the Book of Life is open, and I’m fasting, here’s what I’d like my entry to say oh great cosmic forces: Rachel had a year of transition, but we’re going to cut…
I’m working with my life coach and today was a particularly tough session because I realized that I kicked Wonder Woman to the curb during all my recent travails. Wonder Woman is the person in me who speaks up, who speaks directly, who speaks her heart. I spoke my heart to two people who turned their back on me. I took on heady work of the resurrection and reconstruction of the LaLa after the Federal…
I took the dogs for a walk this morning and ran into my therapist, which is always tricky because there is a part of you that wants to just start letting it rip, and then there’s a part that knows you are not “in session” and so best to approach topics gingerly. There were pelicans swooping around the bayou, and lots of dog walking action, and we skirted the banks catching up about this and…
Last night, I went to the Foundry for a Waldorf fundraiser and Deacon John and the Ivories were playing. I walked over to him to say hi as he had played for my mom’s memorial service. He said he had played Sugar Boy’s funeral that morning. The band was fabulous – there were two female singers along with Deacon John and they tore it up. We danced our feet off. Later, a crowd of us…
Tin and I got up and went to Zumba and had a particularly wonderful class. Then we showered and went to Louis Armstrong Park to go to Music for All Ages, which is one of the best kept secrets in New Orleans. Any child can show up with an instrument and be taught to play and play along with these seasoned professionals. It was good getting back into the groove – we haven’t been in…
We arrived at Little Tokyo last night and upon getting our menus I asked Tin what he wanted and he said, “Pizza.” His friend wanted miso soup and smoked salmon and avocado roll. Tin turned up his nose. So I ordered him udon. Eventually he ate sushi and miso soup (all of it). All it took was letting them draw on the paper tablecloths.