Tis the season I reckon. The season of festivals and friends and folly, because I know it’s been hard to slow down and breathe. On Stella’s arrival into this house, my meditation, stretching, exercise in the morning turned into slogging out of bed at 4am to stand in the wet grass in the backyard and saying, “Go pissy piss” loud enough for her to hear and low enough for my neighbors not to shoot me.…
I was pulling out the yarmulkes and Haggadahs for the Seder and felt content. My yarmulkes are all from someone in my family’s big event: Sandy and David’s Wedding November 13, 1983 Dana Grace’s Bat Mitzvah May 31, 1985 Jaquelyn Michelle’s Bat Mitzvah April 10, 1999 Dana and Mark’s Wedding July 8, 2000 Lexi’s Bat Mitzvah August 28, 2000 Lara and Shane’s Wedding September 1, 2001 Sarah’s Bat Mitzvah July 8, 2006 Matt and Soo’s…
Last year: Mom: Tin go outside and play in the back yard. Tin: No. There’s no one out there to play with. Last month: Mom: Go outside and jump on the trampoline. Tin: Can you come with me? Last week: Tin: Mom, can I go outside with Stella and play? Mom: Yes! The New Song For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be time for what I had a…
Why me Lord, what have I ever done? I love when Kris Kristofferson sings that song. And I love when that question arises in me because it usually means that my cup runneth over. I have been wanting to plant a garden and landscape my house and behold the floodgates opened to me in the form of “donated” plants, trees, and bottles and bricks for borders. I asked for a dog – a canine companion…
I went to HikeforKaTREEna today and picked up some free trees. I went there for the free City Park oaks, but the woman suggested a Green Ash and a Drummond Red Maple instead. And so wala – instant beautification! My neighbors are very happy. Look for these on the corner of Cleveland and Lopez – and the Morris Jeff students will be happy as well. Both trees were free – I also got an Orient…
I told a friend I’m mystified by the unavailable men who keep popping up in front of me. Like the one yesterday who told me “I’m bringing you my truth” about being married. I had asked the universe to bring me a partner who could bring truth and accept mine. My friend’s response: Oh lord. Well, a wise woman once told me, ‘getting what you want often begins with saying no to what you don’t…
I came across a bunch of inspirational cards that a friend in San Rafael had given me many moons ago. It was great opening a box of books where I was searching for my Haggadahs. We’re getting ready for Passover and the seder and I have an assortment of them that had gone missing. Inside one box were these cards and so I took them out and read each one and felt quite happy that…
I’m always on the sunny side of the street, and even told the first therapist I ever saw that I felt like I had sunshine on my shoulder and was pretty happy most of the time. She told me that I succumbed to magical thinking. She didn’t mean it kindly, but the fact of the matter is I think it’s true – still. I am the manifestation of the bumper sticker MAGIC HAPPENS. My life…
IT’S UNCANNY! Stella peed on the floor the other day and I said, “Arlene!” It is uncanny how much Stella looks like Arlene and how I keep feeling like a new chapter is being written just having this puppy in my life. It took a long time for Arlene to get bladder control and to learn about going pissy piss outside. Stella seems to be following in her footsteps. I was showing a photograph of…