A friend needed to bend my ear last night as she is reaching a critical juncture in motherhood, partnerhood, and selfhood and she cannot figure out her next step. I went out late to meet and talk, when usually I’m bound for bed and I’m glad I did, because oddly enough it could have been my younger self talking to me. The younger self stubbornly clinging to an ideal when reality is dealing you another…
We dedicated our yoga practice to all the creatures of the sea and wetlands today in the hopes that the world begins to listen to what they have to say about their environment being pillaged for our wasteful and wanton benefit. The most anyone might be able to utter is sorry birds, sorry fish, sorry creatures = the best news we have heard in the Gulf South today is that the federal government has begun…
I started my new running program this morning. On Tues and Thurs, I’ll run and T will take the dogs to the dog park for their running. On my run I ran into a lot of neighborhood folks but one was a surprise. A guy I had met pre-Katrina had decided to leave New Orleans after the storm amidst a lot of soul searching. He had thrown open the doors to the possibility of teaching…
June 01, 2010 Taurus (4/20-5/20) You’re hard-working and diligent — some would say stubborn — but there’s much more to life than simply making sure you take care of your responsibilities. Try another kind of responsibility, like the dues you owe your family and friends? Remember that the people who complain because they haven’t seen you in so long? Give yourself (and everyone) a break. Take some time for yourself.
Tin is learning what all the animals say and the best is when he says shzzzshzzzzshzzzz, what a bee says. Well we have been busy bees. I barely touched down from traveling when my family arrived from out of town and one event bled into the other. While it’s great seeing everyone, the weekend went by in a blur between breakfast here, lunch there, see you here, catch up there. Friends’ invitations dropping by the…
BP unleashes the oil spill to end all oil spills killing 11 people, and maybe even killing Louisiana, so much for more more more. Maoist rebels derailed a train in West Bengal and 71 people are dead, so much for innocent victims. Israeli military board a ship headed to Gaza with supplies and kill 9 Palestinians, thus severing ties with Turkey and complicating its relationship to the US much less the rest of Europe. Yep,…
We went to my niece’s high school graduation and I missed everything but her walking up to get her diploma as I was engaged in my way too high Prada heels chasing Tin up and down multiple flights of stairs outside in the lobby and across the marble floor as he wobbled and lurched and crashed like a drunken midget. When my niece accepted her diploma, my loud family was screaming Woo Hoo – with…
About ten years ago, a friend of Steve’s was dating a woman who wanted to have a baby. She got pregnant and they got married and she miscarried and they got divorced. She was cited as one of those, those types of women who irrationally want a child no matter what. You know the type. Some men think that women want only to have a baby and are singularly focused on making that happen. But…
While BP is figuring out how to get us out of this fine mess they have gotten us into, I sat in the living room with Tin reading Farm Animals, a book my aunt had given him. Oink Oink, Moo. T’s mother came in and sat on the other couch and said that BP is moving to plan B and that basically no matter what “it is over for Louisiana.” I looked out the window,…
When we were putting Tin to bed last night, we read him a book that has a poem by Maya Angelou and paintings by Basquiat, which is called Life Does Not Frighten Me. T was reading the text and at one point it said, “I go boo” and she thought it said, “igaboo” and we laughed so hard that we cried, which upset Tin because both of us couldn’t stop laughing or crying. Later that…