I was speaking with my mom today about back in August when on the 20th she had a code blue and after she kept saying José, José – my father’s name. My father died on August 20, 1985. I asked her today if she remembered that and if she had seen him and she said she didn’t remember it at all. I said, “Well, when you get to the other side could you send me…
A friend was telling me that when her mother was dying, they used to sit in the garden and look at the hummingbirds around the feeder. Then after her mother had died, she was coming back from the hospital in a snow storm and bringing her newborn home and a hummingbird landed on her car. She knew her mother’s spirit was near. Today, I was wondering how to approach my day with a good attitude…
The difference between a good day and a bad day is attitude. And that is certainly the case here. We played hooky from Tai Chi last night and watched instead two episodes of Mad Men, and I read (engrossed) more of The Girl Who Played With Fire (both were great entertainment and a good way to take my mind off of things). I woke this morning before the bells of Our Lady of the Cross…
The true essence of yoga is mind over matter. Your mind tells you you are old. It tells you your body is incapable of doing these bends, these poses, these flights. But you tell your mind you are in yoga class and you are going to do a crow’s pose, and a head stand, and turn into an impossible bend and you suddenly start believing it. It’s the darnedest thing!
Let’s recap where we are now. It’s pouring down rain in New Orleans, a state I usually welcome when it is not compounding my mood. I’ve turned myself into a workaholic because it is the only holic that is getting me through these times. Mom’s prognosis turned more dour today as her likelihood of getting off the vent is now unlikely even by her most ardent supporter – the lung doctor. At the same time,…
The pope is asking Anglicans who are sick and tired of female priests and gay rights to come join their cause, he’s so desperate for people, he’s even going to take in Anglican priests who are married. I say what a fab idea – everyone with prejudice in your heart, line up over here and that way, when the world passes them by, which it will, we can all point to the pope for bringing…
Mom said there was a party going on in the room next door to her and bid me to go check. I was placating her and she got vexed so I went over there to see if there was any sort of party going on. Instead I found meek Ms. Gaspar sleeping in her dark bed, not uttering a peep. When a friend of mine was dying of AIDS, in his final month, he lay…
I’ve been speaking to women who might be looking to put their baby up for adoption. I know what is coming in a year long segue into dirty diapers but I can’t tell you how thrilled I am at the chance that we might be parents very soon. Today, I was visiting my mother and once again watching the nurses clean her up and then right when they finished, like clockwork, they had to start…
We experienced near perfect weather today in New Orleans which was a welcome respite from the fact that we had swung from 92 degrees to 55 degrees in the blink of an eye and never had a chance for one of those “let’s open the window” moments. Loca and I were walking through City Park and she was looking up at me adoringly and I said to her, I love you too, in some sort…
I’m knee deep into the second part of the trilogy of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series and I ran a hot bubble bath and escaped there to just let myself become engrossed in the book. The house could have burned down and I wouldn’t have noticed.