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Finding out what is precious to you
Last night at dinner, we were talking about losing things and losing interest in things. I was telling about how when I left my first husband I was living in an apartment on General Pershing uptown and I had put all the precious dishes and serving ware that I had collected or received through our five year marriage into cabinets over the sink. I came home one day to find that the cabinets had fallen…
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The wonders of the world
As the bayou has gone down, with boats hanging from the iron rings, people have jumped down into the banks and been beach combing, or bayou combing. It’s eerie to see the water level so low especially with the impending doom that Gustav has brought. Yesterday afternoon, the neighbor kids found a bunch of bones and bleached them out and laid them all out on a towel to inspect. The little boy said, “Ms. Rachel,…
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Life – Act III
Act III – Scene 1 Mother calls and says she woke up on the floor and couldn’t stand up for an hour. [This raises more questions than might be answered in one daughter’s lifetime.]
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Life – Act II
Act II – Scene 1 Loretta Lynn has a song entitled God Makes No Mistakes. I went to say goodbye today to a little girl who has infiltrated our hearts and is leaving much too soon. Is this really happening?
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Life – A Four-Act Play – Act I
Act I – Scene 1 The LaLa Everything is in its place at the LaLa. T’s found her spaces while minimally impacting mine. Books are on shelves. Clothes are in drawers. Toiletries are in the bathroom. Act I – Scene 2 New Orleans Knock, knock Who’s there? Gustav Gustav who? Are we going to evacuate? No. Plan A Plan B Plan C Act I – Scene 3 Pan the bayou The water level down about…
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A knock on the door
The doorbell just rang and someone was asking me what the heck is going on with the bayou – “I’ve never seen it so low!” – I told them the Sewerage and Water Board had lowered the level in the bayou by opening the locks to prevent it from spilling over due to the heavy rains we’ve had and are expected to have because of Fay. It’s been raining here every day and day before…
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It’s all going to the birds
Catalog of birds seen this morning on walk through City Park: Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron White Ibis Mottled Duck Tundra Swan Snowy Egret Canadian Geese
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In a land far, far away…
A few months ago, every person I spoke with seemed intent on bursting my bubble and telling me that Obama wouldn’t get elected. That has changed recently, there seems to be hope in the wind that he will win this election and become the 44th President of the United States. Wow! I was listening to Michele’s speech and I thought wow! Barack Obama will be president. Wow!