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Re-List 2012
The better part of 2012, I have spent reading lists and at the end of the day, they have done nothing if not make me more dissatisfied with the status quo. What I have read that has inspired me have been an array of unlists: a friend’s food blog, a new podcast from Bill Moyers, a blog I stumbled upon, and one I sought out, as well as re-reading the Tao te Ching. And so…
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Mere mortals with a sprinkling of fairy dust
I was trying to explain spirituality to someone who is a self professed atheist. This person didn’t like Martin Luther King’s speech because it had too many religious references. My response is that we – mere mortals – are stuck in the metaphor. The one that was handed down to us so people say words and phrases like God will provide, or Jesus loves me, but when an individual sits down and contemplates his or…
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Mundane Monday
Okay so I didn’t know that Tin had no school and we got up, made lunch, fed him breakfast, got him dressed and drove all the way across town to find out that school was closed. Now I would have thought MLK would be a reason not to have school but since he’s off for a week for Mardi Gras and a week and a day for spring break, it never occurred to me that…
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It’s always something
If you ever watched Rosanna Rosanna Danna on Saturday Night Live you remember her tag line was it’s always something. And so it was that I watched Martin Luther King give his speech in 1963 in D.C. where he says that we will not be free until the Negro is given citizenship. And I thought the rhetoric now is until gays can marry. And I’m sure polygamists are lining up as I write. See it’s…
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Why I live in the Gulf South (reason #14506956894)
Some people don’t understand why people live in the path of a hurricane. They don’t understand how we deal with all the crime (we don’t). They don’t understand why there’s no place to shop, horrific schools, and people eat a diet that would make John Belushi flinch. But today is why we live here. It is January 15th and it was a picture perfect picnic day where in a sleeveless sundress, we took over the…
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Sunday’s are meant for the lord
and we obey by lounging for the lord – still in pajamas contemplating a picnic in City Park today because the weather is so awesome. I love the Gulf South, New Orleans, and a winter’s day spent outdoors in my tee shirt.
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Suppose it was different then
I’ve been reading the most engaging thought pieces, articles, tweets, Google+ posts, and hearing people speak of a new way – just finished an article about motivating students by having them take rewards for excellence and pass it on to those who helped them, about workers who receive vouchers that they in turn give to those who helped them along the way, about a real hard look at how politics have shaped the disparity in…
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Home is where the heart is, and where the soul cries out
I’ve lived many places in my life but never has a place has so profoundly felt like home as the city of New Orleans. After driving over 800 miles to get home yesterday, I hit the twin spans as the sun was setting in purple, gold and red technicolor over Lake Ponchartrain. I could have told you I was home with my eyes closed by the potholes that only Louisiana delivers. No matter, my spirit…