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My friends
July 12, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) If you thought that yesterday was sweet and magical, expect more action today — your agenda has even crazier business in store. As fond as you are of romance and the heart-thumping that goes along with it, you can see how you’re getting even more than that right now. Your job is to be thoughtful toward your friends, and to let them know that you’re heading out for a while.
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The new new on the event calendar
Essence Festival came and went this year over the 4th of July, but it could have been on planet Pluto for all we knew, since I had just returned from my last of four business trips, sick, and was just looking for my bed and couch more than anything else. Yesterday, was the Bastille Day festival over on Ponce de Leon, and though we had every intention of going, we never made it out of…
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Strangers in the parking lot
Tin and I were walking into Elmwood Fitness yesterday for his fourth and last installment of swim lessons before we leave for the sunny beaches of Europe and a handsome black man headed to his car stopped and looked at us as we passed. Just passed him, he said, “You never see a white woman carrying a black baby.” I just smiled at him and said, “You do now.” He then said, “He yours?” and…
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What worries you my child?
Tin has always had a very serious pensive look and luckily as the months have come and gone with us together that furrowed brow is seldom visible anymore. But he can still give you a game face, usually in a situation that he is unfamiliar with. But the other day I took him to the hospital with me to see my aunt who had just had back surgery and he only had that look for…
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Another year around the sun
Today is the Bastille Day celebration over on Ponce de Leon and all the merchants are putting on the dog. But for me this is a somber occasion, because last year, on July 11th on Saturday’s Bastille Day celebration Tatjana and I were enjoying ourselves to the max, having margaritas and dancing to the sound of the Creole String Beans while T’s mother sat in Fortier Park speaking to a neighbor. On our way home…
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Jindal slouching towards the presidency
UNO announced yet another round of layoffs today – really? – how much more could they cut? Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to know the answer. $14 million cut out of the budget that was already reduced to nothing in the last round of layoffs. Question is – can this university survive Jindal’s bid for the presidency? UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan
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The bull by the horns
One of the real emotional issues I’ve had to battle with the last few days is the sense of not having control of my destiny and that has been manifest in disparate observations that I’ve cobbled together. One example of which is I bought this house with two incomes and set out a remodel that was within budget reach, but in the blink of an eye, I became one income and the remodel cost tripled…
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On the right foot
Starting the day with a walk through the park with the dogs is the best way to hold the demons at bay – yes this is another day in paradise complete with all the stress that accompanies the other days but today as Lena Horne said, “It’s not the burden that wears you down, it’s how you carry it.” So Zen dropping #72 from the Tao te Ching to begin this Thursday: When they lose…
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And the answer is….
With the envelope figuratively at my temple I must return again to this one wonderous fact – who matters, not what – we are living through some interesting times – right in the thick of rapid developments, considerable game changers, epic strains that require heroic solutions, and uncertainty – don’t forget uncertainty – but buckled into this roller coaster ride comes facts that haven’t changed since first recorded history and those are: a) if you…