It’s raining in New Orleans and has been since the middle of the night. The bayou looks like the Muddy Mississippi. The dogs are panting by the door. Tin is off to the Monkey Room with his nanny. There is no rain like rain in New Orleans. Randy Newman’s Louisiana 1927 What has happened down here is the wind have changed Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain Rained real hard…
I remember a guy I worked with who described a friend as being “too emotional” – can one be too emotional? When I was married to Steve, a coworker described us as being “too generous” – a criticism that still makes me chuckle. My father was a generous person – what he had, we had, what we had, our friends had, and on and on. I’ve never known another way. You’re making food, you always…
I was speaking with a friend yesterday who said that the loss of a good friend had a numbing affect on the heart. I told her I keep reading how loss, pain, suffering helps us grow, but I’m on the fence whether to subscribe to cyncism or faith on this subject. I have often quoted Jane Hirshfield’s Proud Flesh – the horse’s scar that can’t be wounded again. We are all marching forward building up…
My Yogi teabag had a message for me the other night, it said, “True wealth is the ability to let go of your possessions.” I concur. But I’m afraid. I want a life prescribed by me instead of just the dull sheep march – have a job, make money, own property, grow concerned you will lose job, money, property, live life of stress, one day it doesn’t matter, then you die. This matters more now…
I woke early to get to meditation because I knew that I couldn’t go tomorrow night – I was three minutes late and the door was locked. Agitation instead of Meditation. But I let it go. I wanted to go to yoga during lunch but instead had a phone call I had to do so I missed moving my body. I let it go. Early evening I realized that I had an appointment across town…
A friend called to tell me she is reading a book on how to be happy – she said this guy has written about the Blue Zones – places where people live long lives – the places are, drumroll please, Singapore (are you kidding me?), Denmark (good design, but again, are you kidding me?) and Costa Rica – I’ll take Costa Rica for five. Meanwhile, Stanford has a site where they have listed the ten…
Today I heard that a friend’s mother’s life long friend died, but this was only after hearing that a much beloved relative of mine is getting divorced after over four decades of marriage – what goes on? Meanwhile, another friend who had out of towners visiting over the holiday weekend said they went to the French Quarter for New Year’s Eve and had a bad experience because everyone was fighting – every single couple they…
We read a list of how to make your technological life saner – one was to back up all your photos to a site like Picasa, another one was to use DropBox to also back up documents, and other notes such as these – as we all know – or at least I do – the digital world can be so, oh how do you say, tenuous. Interestingly enough, I’ve been waiting for my property…
The ancient Babylonians believed that what a person does on the first day of the new year will affect what they do throughout the year. The tradition of New Year’s Day resolutions can be traced to this belief.
Not only was I having a rough start to the new year, but so were birds (remember the conversation yesterday outside my window? Where here is what they were talking about – 2000 dead birds fell out of the sky in Arkansas yesterday – you heard!) in a neighboring state – the culprit blunt trauma to their inner organs. Poltergeist? Perhaps, or the news is explaining it as possibly lightening or hail. So if indeed…