All of these things sort of collided into one another and actually started making sense. At Jazz Fest, I stopped at a friend’s party and another friend was there explaining to a handful of people what feathers mean. Feathers are messages from the spirit world. She’s a Candomblé priestess. I listened to her story intently because I’d been out at the Fairgrounds and was soaking wet, which gave me this otherworldly feeling as I sat…
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. -Marcus Garvey In all those years of walking through the double wide school doors, released from the tedium of institutional learning, to my mother’s car where loud radio music awaited me – I’ll never forget what she always said, “Chile, I don’t know where you get that confident swagger…
My life has me once again tossing around like a dinghy in troubled waters. Too much time is spent on work with the project either offering money or meaning, and hardly ever blending the two according to my desires. Tatjana’s diagnosis of terminal cancer has my whole system on lock down while she handles this news better than me. Another friend’s diagnosis of cancer pounds my already aching heart. And yet there is joy and…
According to W.B. Yeats: Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not persuade, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
The Art of Disappearing When they say Don’t I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like before answering. Someone telling you in a loud voice they once wrote a poem. Greasy sausage balls on a paper plate. Then reply. If they say We should get together say why? It’s not that you don’t love them anymore. You’re trying to remember something too important to forget. Trees.…
I’ve been writing this blog for over a decade and am taking a break. Look for my forthcoming book, The Elephant in the Playground coming soon and look to the wonder of daily life.
A dear friend was over and we were talking about life talk and I was telling her the other night as I was facilitating a workshop in race and reconciliation, I had a real moment of divine clarity – I was in my zone. I was doing what I was made to do. After the very first workshop that I offered on parenting through anti-racism, my friend, a spunky and successful business woman told me…
Conversation with a friend on Wednesday: Old paradigms are falling away, the new ones haven’t been created, we are in a time of great chaos and transition. And we are spreading our fear and anxiety to our children. The only thing we can do is hold our center; enormous self-care is needed right now. In order to be Love, we need to first Love ourselves, and then spread our Love as far as it reaches.…
Meet people where they are at, even if where they are at is not where it’s at. [mine] Do not attach your dreams of love and relationship to a person who is not bringing love. [friend] The morning is smarter than the night. [from a Croatian] When the world is overwhelming, break it down. [mine] Think that you might be wrong. [mystery artist] Be Love or Leave. [mine]