I always find wonderful poems on this site – and today did not disappoint: from A Place of First Permission AT a still point of the turning floor there is a dancer you would know her even across a crowded room the way she sways is so familiar She weaves with the easiness and grace of someone so completely in possession of her body the beat she lays down with her hands and feet is…
I am beginning to believe there is no one true experience for anyone, anywhere. I look at the fact that I was raised in the same environment, by the same people, and had the same experiences as my sister but in fact, we are polar opposites in how we view everything. So when I read about adoption and how the experience might color a child’s outlook on life, it’s really from a point of ignorance…
Daily Affirmation December 4, 2008 I truly believe and know my good, and I choose to embody that feeling right here, right now!
Getting my hair cut the other day, I was talking about current events and the person I was speaking with said that he had invested his money wisely. “I should have never gotten this far,” he told me, having come from nothing. He had bought two houses, he had started saving for retirement early, he had spent the year plus investing in stocks – or so he thought it was wisely. And yet, all of…
We had a gathering of 21 college seniors at our house last night and the first thing that shook me was how young they all are! The next was how hopeful, aware, and interesting each one of them was. Their thoughts on Obama’s future and Bush’s legacy, about Health issues, and International relations, and their overall sense of responsibility and yet carefree view of tomorrow. Wow, youth. So different from sex, drugs, and rock n…
Word up – chill out is the mantra of the day. It’s about not letting work sweep you away, not letting all the phone calls you haven’t returned to friends weigh you down, and about not being daunted because everything on your to do list is getting subsumed by new additions. Today, there was a Great Blue Heron that flew gracefully across the water. A lone pelican has worked his way down to our end…
There wasn’t enough time to walk Loca as I had an early call to get on, so roll out of bed, make tea, eat oatmeal and hi ho, it’s off to work I go. So I thought I’d walk her sometime but the time never came and now, at the end of the day, I just wonder if there shouldn’t be more hours in the day. If the federal government can print more money when…
It’s snowing – that’s right, in many places it is snowing – but not here! Yippee. Instead, we are having a gorgeous sunny day. There are puffy white clouds in the baby blue sky and a nice cool breeze blowing. The joys of living here. A colleague said this morning – “You live in vacation land, except for Hurricane Season.” Guess that about sums it up.
Move your hips – when I sign off from work, I head to the bayou to hula hoop and there with my IPod on my Hula-Hoop Playlist I find the joy that has been sucked out of my day by too many things on my to do list – when all you have on your to do list left to do is move your body to music, you align your rhythm to whatever dreamland you…
Got to love these affirmations I get – I got a text from a friend on Thanksgiving that said HFT – our code for Happy Fucking Thanksgiving – I saw it later in the day when I was a whirling dervish and I was about to write back you mean “Fabulous” right? Because I was having a fabulous Thanksgiving, but I paused for a moment thinking I sounded too Polly Anna, and then never got…