I’ve never known a German Shepherd so intimately before but they are very unique dogs. Wolfie doesn’t walk like Loca (who actually doesn’t walk, but instead jumps) instead she sniffs her way down one end and up the other. A friend of mine always said her dog was checking his pee-mail when he did that, but Wolfie is more like Shepherd CSI since she sniffs so intensely each blade of grass and then goes back…
I was walking the dogs and ran into a friend of mine who I haven’t seen in a while. Then I saw him again on the other side of the bayou. I had stopped to say hi to Ms. Marie, and he had too. He told me he grew up with her son. Then Ms. Marie said she was going to be 94 this June 22 and we both told her she was in great…
Yesterday morning, we were slow to get out of bed – I think we have the summer slam because we are getting our eight hours, but not eager to wake up. We lay there about how fast time is going, like we wake up and the next thing you know it is time for bed. It’s not as though a lot doesn’t happen in between – work, meals, walks, exercise, entertainment – [by the way,…
My laundry list of ills includes hot flashes that are debilitating, a mother who won’t stop punishing herself (or me), a high mortgage, and a seemingly endless capacity to be thick around the middle these days – not to mention the grey – hey, in trying to get the red out, I brought the grey out – BLECH!!!! Double Blech! So I’m going to put my right foot in, take my right foot out, put…
I guess I should be thankful for dreaming because whatever is in the back of my mind that has my thoughts teeming at night has to be processed somewhere. My work has me stressed because of the industry I cover – it’s just that time of year when I feel like I am about to miss something big if I don’t stay on my toes. So I go to sleep and I toss and turn…
The last day of our trip to the beach, we were sitting on the terrace right off the bedroom and a rainbow appeared in the sky. I was in the midst of my book – Grace and Grit – and I was thinking about acceptance and how simple a concept it is and how difficult a practice it is. Today, on my second doctor’s appointment with my mom – helping her walk feebly from car…
I woke this morning to the church bells at 6AM and here it is 6PM and the bells are clanging again – in the meantime, I’ve done little to stretch and bend beyond this computer and desk chair. NOT GOOD.
The front page of the Sunday NYT has a picture of a baby in a freshly dug grave. Poor medical care is taking its toll on mother and infant in Africa. Here in the U.S., it’s the same old story – kids in the system with biological parents who won’t release them to families, agencies charging $26,000 to just match with a potential infant, and then there is the whole pay as you go until…
As we were in line for the Ferry going over to Dauphin Island yesterday, an older man with a craggy face walked by and he had a hat on that said WORK SUCKS! with a fish lure hanging out of it. Days go by and the lines around my eyes and mouth increase. I’m trying to get the unnatural red out of my hair and get back to my own color (hard to know what…
Going back to the spiral theory that Flower first brought to my attention, where we are all going around a spiral called life but as we move through life our goal is to get higher and higher up the expanding spiral so that when we encounter the same obstacle or challenge we are wiser (higher up the rung) and the time between encounters gets longer. I was sitting on the porch reading Grace and Grit,…