Tin was handed a toy clarinet by friends Alejandro and Ivan in Madrid and within minutes found a street band to join – a group of Romas – later in Zahara, a friend called Tin a gypsy performer – very fitting.
We’re headed across the pond to unplug and recharge. While gone, I have crafted this survey to check in with you and see where you are at this point in life. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions in this survey, it’s totally anonymous, and I will share the results when I return. Bon voyage!
I was plunging into my to do list today that made it seem like someone had turned up the treadmill by about 1000 notches. Seriously. I couldn’t catch my breath because the big rock on my chest felt like a boulder that an elephant was sitting on. Victory lap – there is a good chance I will be able to refinance the house (check), I was able to use a free ticket for an upcoming…
The weekend respite was good for me, but I came back to the stress ball that I can’t seem to extricate from my throat. I formulated a plan for work that at least gave me some satisfaction and now am ready to execute. My horoscope today was perfect for this part of my life: July 12, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Things are improving in your work or school life, in part because you are taking a…
I sailed away this weekend to Nantucket on what has become an annual retreat. I gained more laugh lines, I traded pounds of worry for pounds of delicious treats, I reverted to the little girl who lives in me and loves a good time with good friends. To find a friend is rare, to find a group of them is nigh impossible, but I, dear readers, fell into a bowl of milk when in 2006…
What the Mapmaker Knows O is the ocean and t the consequence of time at the edge of a landscape of dots plotted into the plane with a constant scale. Any place can be located and later divided by cultural and social data and sketched on a napkin—disregarding distance and leaving only the little one knows. Description is reductive: a shirt on the back, buttons on the front, a mind that is willing to enact its…
I’m going to take a much needed respite from myself because I have come this far and I’m bewildered by life. As our summer vacation approaches, I’m once again at a high pitch, a frenzy I seem to have a talent for working myself into around this time. It comes from feeling like I have to do it all with alacrity that rivals the velocity and speed of something only a physicist might imagine. Then…
I dreamed the other night that I was buying tickets for a marching band and had left Tin in the car and three ladies abducted him and I was running as fast I could after him but not moving and woke screaming Tiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn! A friend, who spent half his life with his partner, is visiting us because he is on a friend hopping trip in the U.S. after his partner died of cancer last year.…
In that pendulum of life, sometimes it is actually refreshing to hit bottom. Down there in the quagmire, covered in yuck, you realized just how good a hot shower feels, you suddenly see clearer that the chains that bind you are of your own making, and what you realize is that perhaps you have found a way to negotiate the “quiet life of desperation” that all of us live. In a telephone conversation with a…