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Calling all dreamers
I am known to admit that placed in a room with ten men in tuxedos I would go home with the waiter every time. That could be because I’m attracted to the dreamer, the magic bean buyer, the pray-er. My second husband was want to say that the most moving thing he ever witnessed in his life was a goat giving birth and he described the event as if it happened long ago in a…
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Codeword: Tyrone
I’m on a mission, as a ferryman and the stacking evidence against this operation – two clogged toilets due to rain, a property tax bill that has no available funds, the truck that needs not only three new tires, oil change ($750) but news of more to come (starting with brakes $400), minor illness, and being asked and asked and asked – is propelling me into this assignment with one part urgency and the other…
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The Leap
Aren’t we all waiting to take that big leap into the abyss? Come on, the thought has crossed your mind. I feel that is what I’ve done. I let someone come into my life who I knew was just passing through and sometimes it feels overwhelming, sometimes it feels just right, sometimes it feels manic. But mostly it feels refreshingly new. For me, at least. Here are two people attracted to each other who do…
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New Orleans People Project
DAY 606 RACHEL DANGERMOND & TIN DANGERMOND I came back from San Francisco three months before the 2005 Federal Flood. A couple of years later, I watched a documentary called “Trouble the Water” and in it, a fairly large Black man is wading through flood water up to his chin carrying an elderly woman up high over his head to safety. He said, “I always wondered why I was here. What God wanted from me.…
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Don’t Let the Smooth Taste Fool You
Warren Easton’s marching band is parading around the neighborhood making Carnival almost unavoidable, but that’s alright because honestly, let’s just get in and get out. Again, Mardi Gras is early this year – February 17 – and I’m barely recovering from the holy trinity of Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa not to mention New Year’s. My friends are all going nuts it seems with more couples splitting up than hooking up, and I have to say all of the…
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I found out
2014 was a year that was a pivotal year for me and this household. This was my first full year in the Spirit House and they say that a house is truly not a home till you break bread with loved ones at the table (multiple checks), experience death and loss (my friend, Dina Ann LeBlanc May 29, 1964 – June 5, 2014), welcome a newborn (Stella) into the world, plant something in the ground, and…