Yesterday was a glorious day, it was cool but sunny and warming. After lunch, it was too beautiful to pass up and it was Tin’s birthday after all, so I took him and Margarete (his nanny) to the zoo and I conducted my business from an outdoor table and chair while they looked at monkeys, elephants and camels. We were late getting home for his nap and had his party to rest up for, but…
I love my neighborhood and community and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else in the entire world or universe, but… Steps off Esplanade, an elderly gentlemen was packing up his car when a derelict grabbed the man from behind and threw him down. The man was from out of town and was here visiting his son, Welcome to New Orleans … for godsakes we forget when we look out at the bayou and talk to our…
Today is Tin’s birthday and last night when were were reading him his book he mimicked us and said, “Oink oink oink” and then puckered up and blew kisses. He’s a genius we’ve decided. And this morning when I woke him up, it felt like a special day because the sun was shining and it was warmer and it just felt like Tin’s first special birthday. Tonight we’re having a little party for him –…
I used to announce the California State Lottery in Spanish as a side gig when I was living in San Francisco. I worked with some characters, one of which was a guy who firmly believed in the Chupa Cabra myth. We would argue about this – yes, I know, why? but we did. He brought me a VHS tape to watch and in it was someone dangling a light fixture and he said it was…
If people can mistreat their pets, like this article Wednesday in the Times Picayune about a German Shepherd who was starved by a guy who has been arrested before for animal abuse, then what do you think people are doing to animals that are raised for food. Horrific.
I’ve been sleeping so deeply lately that I am actually having dreams of sleeping deeply. Now that’s deep. But last night I dreamt that I was headed somewhere with a friend and said let’s just fly and then I was flying, so easily and gracefully. It was a great feeling. I read that dreams of flight are considered lucid dreams, dreams where you know you are dreaming but are enjoying the dream. And dreams of…
In yoga today we talked about how there is a time for saying yes and a time for saying no. And discernment is the key to balancing the two. I remember when we were first starting down the path of adoption, we had at one point an opportunity to adopt simultaneously twins and one other baby and that would have meant that we would have entered chaos and never ever had a chance to reflect…
I used to have this large color Sunday comic called Bizarro hanging up in my kitchen when I lived in North Beach in San Francisco – it was William Shakespeare at home for Thanksgiving and he was being pulled aside by one family member who was telling him that instead of the play he was writing, he should think about writing this idea, and another family member was standing off in the background talking to…
Social Security, FDIC and the WPA – what do all of these things have in common – big government. What is big government? It is you and me helping those less fortunate than ourselves. We are the one of the richest nations – do you think it is right that in this country some children are shut out of a good education, good health care, a decent meal? I hope not. This will only take…
Today seemed like every conversation veered back to my mother and each time I tried to have that conversation about her from banal to not, I was fighting back the tears. We had a friend over this evening and were discussing the latest rants and musings and our friend said that in life when people, family, behave like a unit it is out of a need to clearly define who is core and who is…