T is always talking about my American optimism, but since I know so many American pessimists, I wonder if it is an American trait at all. At the same time, I covet her Eastern European Living (eel) ways of appreciation, relaxation, and pragmatism. Yet, even though I find T immensely hilarious at times, there is a humor barrier between the Americans and EELs. Take this joke her mother told me: A little bird was sitting…
The World Walkers for Peace arrived in Faubourg St. John around 3:30 pm See them again tomorrow at 5:30 pm at Fairgrinds. 5:30pm – 7:00pm – WorldWalk Peace Tour Presentation Two Hungarian brothers walk around the world and stop here tonight. Looking for the world’s best coffee? Not exactly, though we hope they find it here. No they are promoting Peace through co-living – Brotherhood and friendship. 25,000 miles and 5 continents, they walk to…
Yesterday was a rough day and it left a sort of kathunk in my chest. We were supposed to go to a friend’s house for dinner because another friend was passing through from Peru. I was close to canceling. But instead, I went and soon I was transported into another space and time, a much needed other space. As we sat on the balcony watching the pink gaudy sky turn dark, looking out over the…
This morning I smelled something noxious in the backyard and feared there was a gas link or something chemical burning. Turns out there was, only it was at the Dow Chemical Plant that had unleashed some of their lovely product into the air. How would you like to be Dow Chemical – the very name Dow Chemical sends shudders and expectations of foul odor into my my body.
On Sunday, I went to my friend’s dedication of a swing set she had erected in Audubon Park for her daughter who passed six months ago. Today, another friend is in ICU near losing her child. Each of these horrible situations makes my insides feel mangled and an existential emptiness rises up inside me. A good friend in high school died in a car accident on her way home from a party. She was with…
An old highschool friend contacted me on Facebook and said about my mother: I have always remembered how beautiful she was..she has always been in my heart…she was really good to me.
I saw in my yoga book “Beauty is a remembrance of the whole,” by John Friend – it was a poignant statement. Michele was speaking about the full or poonam moon and how it is a like a large mirror that reflects our image back at us. It followed a thread from this morning, when I was sifting through the NYT and came across the article on Happiness and then read some of the comments, I…
There is a great article in the NYT about happiness – not the article itself which is just saying that Pew did a study on happiness and the results of their survey are not surprising – friends and financial security make you happy. The best part of the article are actually the readers’ comments. One of my favorite is the following because it is what I have done, refresh and renew and reward those friends…
Last night, I spent time on the telephone catching up about friends and colleagues I haven’t seen in a while and there was something wistful in the air – air so thick because it represented another piece of this large life I have been living – life is short, but it’s wide – yet there are dimensions of your life, which are not on the daily path, where people and places live in darkness until…
I got a good eight hours of sleep last night but the morning seemed to come a lot quicker than I expected because all night I was dreaming I was in surgery and I kept having to be rolled into the operating room and I was concerned because everyone seemed to be taking the entire procedure a little too lightly. I kept telling myself not to worry but frankly I was. This is typical of…