Levine was named as poet laureate for the US and in an article in the NYT an excerpt from one of his poems reveals why: Can you taste what I’m saying? It is onions or potatoes, a pinch of simple salt, the wealth of melting butter, it is obvious, it stays in the back of your throat like a truth you never uttered because the time was always wrong … I love the silence he…
A friend just sent me photographs of us from a recent trip. Why do I look thinner in her photos – I need to change cameras – really!
A therapist told me several times to get my sense of urgency in check, but I told her, I have a job that requires urgency, I have things that have to be done if not by me, then by who, and I have a life I am trying to grab by the horns and live as much as I can so everything appears urgent to me. Exactly, she said. A long time friend of mine…
There was an interesting article in the New York Times about a woman who came across her ex’s blog and she was so drawn to reading about him that she found it addicting. Then the blog went down after the blogger had made some remarks he regretted. I wrote a fellow blogger about whether he might ever think of shutting it down and another friend who writes a blog to see if she would either…
The bumpersticker on the old Toyota Camry said It’s Going To Be Okay and I thought whoever had the presence of mind to put that on their car had a good sense of humor. This morning I started work at 6am so I took the dogs out later than usual, this time wearing my iPod and listening to Ram Das. I was so moved by what he was saying that I felt as if I…
In the survey I posted before leaving for Spain, I posted the numerical results but none of the commentary that appeared – here is the commentary: 5. What has been the best remedy for getting over loss and pain? 46.4% Time 17.9% Friends 14.3% Family 3.6% Art 0 Travel Need to explain: Combo: friends, physical activity, travel/new perspective; and some losses are not really surmountable – losing a parent at a very young age. It’s…
I asked a friend what the sermon was like at mass today and the reading was from when Jesus walked on water and then Peter asked to join him, but when Peter started walking, he fell in. Jesus put his hand out to him to help him. The moral of the story at my friend’s church this morning is that Peter took a risk, which was good, but he didn’t have faith, bad. In keeping…
“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.” John B. Priestly Enroute – as my friend Julie says, always the best part, when the whole vacation is ahead of you: Madrid with Alejandro and Ivan and their gift to Tin of a toy clarinet: First night in Zahara de los Atunes – Tin sleeps in a big bed for first time: This apartment is closer to…
The heat index has been at about 112 since returning from Spain and my own internal thermometer is set at hot, plain and simple, hot. So how do you tolerate summer heat in New Orleans when the heat index is enough to make even the toughest swoon? 1. Watermelon – ice cold from the fridge, eaten over the sink or sitting on the sink. 2. Bike to Satchmo Fest and see if you can withstand…
I spoke to three full figured women at a party last night about how our children love to mush up in our bodies. It’s an amazing fact how Tin loves to snuggle in my breasts, knead my belly, pummel my butt cheeks. All that love to go around.