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Little Drummer Boy
A friend came in from New York yesterday afternoon and since she has never met Tin, I was not inclined to wake him for drumming in Fortier Park with Angie and Gingerbread. But he woke up wanting drumming so late we rushed to the park where he instantly joined in the circle. Angie and Gingerbread teach drumming around the city and yesterday, Ginger brought her daughter Marissa to play the violin and Angie brought one…
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Not for the love of money
I don’t regret the path I took in my career but there was a time, a time a long time ago, where I worked for the love of what I did and not for the money. That was back when I dreamed of being a novelist or even a song writer. Sixteen years working in the financial industry brought money to the forefront of my consciousness as it did for a lot of people who…
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If it wasn’t for …
So here is a mash up of the day: Friend brings up issue with her that makes me think of my past and dredges up all of the horror, the horror, the horror, and then I realize if it weren’t for that, I’d not be here now. Yoga person chants May All People Be Happy and Free and says the corollary is May All I Do Make People Happy and Free, bringing me to my big…
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Pronoia
In an in-depth conversation with a friend who is dealing with infidelity, the question of how to move forward was stumping her and of course, I could readily hand out advice since it is so much nicer to give than receive. Discover yourself, believe that nothing is going to change your world, set sail to destination me, I advised. Aren’t I pithy. Just as the world never knows what goes on behind closed doors, so…
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My kingdom for expertise
I was reading that NYT article about raising kids bilingual and sent it to a friend who is raising her child bilingual and she echoed this part of the article back to me: If you have two languages and you use them regularly, the way the brain’s networks work is that every time you speak, both languages pop up and the executive control system has to sort through everything and attend to what’s relevant in…
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Focus
There are a lot of things in life that make me lose focus – the Federal Flood, divorce, my mother’s death – you know the big things, but there are daily things that vy for my attention on a daily basis. I was reading an article in the NYT about how raising a child bilingual helps them develop certain areas of their brain. There’s a system in your brain, the executive control system. It’s a…
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Faith
June 01, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Have faith that success is something you can achieve — and something you can achieve soon. It’s true that not everything can be on your timetable, but that doesn’t mean that things are not going to happen. Right now, you are suffering from a bout of impatience … and you need to cure yourself of it. Get active with the lighter side of your life as soon as possible. If…
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Mothers Everywhere UNITE
A friend of ours wants to be a mother so bad she would adopt any child you put in her lap. And yet this morning I read about a 3-year-old child that was left unattended in a car yesterday when the temperatures soared for not one hour but for many hours while the adult who was in charge of the child sat inside an air conditioned house not but a few feet away. We all…
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It’s just June 1st everywhere else
Today marks the beginning of Hurricane Season and from what Mayor Landrieu told us the waters in the Gulf are warmer than usual for this time and so we might expect a bad season – bad in any sense, a storm could do as much damage as a Category 4 Hurricane according to experts. And here we sit, waiting to learn our fate. Right now, work continues on the LaLa, the nonstop maintenance that comes…