I was walking to my truck from NOAC this evening after forcing myself to go to step class. Forcing, I might add again. I parked on Basin Street. I was thinking that people who live in the suburbs would never go to a gym like NOAC, which is on the edge of the French Quarter. They most certainly wouldn’t walk to their truck parked on Basin Street. Because they’d be afraid. What they would miss…
I took the photograph of the family we met in South Carolina and set it on fire this morning. While I was watching it burn on the front brick path of the LaLa, a bird pooped on my shoulder. Now here is a couple of things I know: 1) Burning photographs or even effigies of people who have maligned me makes me happy. Take my ex whatever he was who used his child to seduce…
For all of my life my mother has been in a state of near panic over life itself. She’s not been able to enjoy even the fruits of her own labor. She’s been too anxious and worried and fearful. But yesterday she was watching this channel that the nurses put on for her with nature scenes and calming music. There was an image of a stream and woods with dappled sunlight through the leaves and…
My mom said that her dad visited her the other day. He died nearly two decades ago but it made me happy when she told me that because I would hope he and my grandmother would be somewhere around. I lay in bed the other night thinking about my loved ones who had died and that if I keep living there will be plenty more that will die. I had gone next door to my…
Monday came much sooner than I expected. One minute I was in dreamland and the next the clock said it’s late, get your lazy butt out of bed. And so hi ho, it’s off to work I go. I arrived at my desk to the usual firestorm and only just now took a breath. My mother in law sent me positive energy via a picture that speaks a 1000 words:
I don’t know why birds cause such serenity in humans – maybe their ability to fly is what enchants us. I saw two men (birders) with binoculars eyeing the cormorants today in the park. We all looked at the birds and the birds all looked elsewhere. [As for me, I used to be a bird] As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for…
So Thanksgiving is coming and so are many other feasting opportunities and the question of going vegetarian still hangs in the balance. I think we’re back to just trying to cut back on the amount of meat we eat – which isn’t necessarily a lot but we are certainly more reliant on it than we need to be or even want to be. With Thanksgiving approaching and a lot of turkeys already at the chopping…
While we were on our roadtrip a woman said to me, “Obama is a liar!” and when I asked her what he had lied about, she said everything – just this morning walking Loca, a woman stopped to admire her beauty and I said, “We call her Obama dog because she is so sleek and black and handsome.” The woman said, “Your dog might get more done.” I said, “Give him a chance” when we…
Even though yesterday was our decreed bed-in day, we ventured out to see Neko Case at the Republic. Listening to her sing, adjectives like ethereal, other worldly, rich, lush all vie as descriptors, let’s just say you should experience this singer/songwriter live because she is nothing short of fabulous. The musicians who accompanied her were equal to her talent. We were in thick with the crowd and my eyes started sweating since it was so…