My thoughts lately have been about getting our ducks in a row, preparing, making us and our house ready – waiting for my Duck to return to fix the last coordinates – I asked her to paddle back to me, quickly. The nesting is instinctive to women and it is not a blind eye to the present, but more of a smile towards the horizon: May 01, 2008 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Your brain is going to…
Before she boards her plane she sends me this: In the same space The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood that I’ve seen and walked through years on end: I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidents, so many details. And, for me, the whole of you is transformed into feeling. Cavafy
The light is fading softly and the air is still cool as we are about to enter May and New Orleans’ long hot summer, but something about the right now feels so precious I want to stay in this moment a little longer.
It’s approximately 24 hours till T returns after leaving for 24 days – that is half as long as I knew her before she left – well not really, we spent a lifetime getting to know each other and just happened to have met now – what’s time anyway, just a linear equation, right? Then why did 24 days feel like eternity? Because it’s like taking candy from a baby – a BIG BABY –…
A friend was telling me that she has relied on her looks most of her life and fears as she ages she will lose what has been her signature – I told her she is wrong – dead wrong – she may feel this way but others don’t perceive only her looks – beauty is as beauty does – we see beauty in deed as well as what meets the eyes. Look at Cesoria Evoria…
The main reason I ran out to see Gal Holiday last night is this – at dinner Monday night my friend told me that her friend had just died of a heart attack at 49! Yikes, I thought, as Friday I will be 49 – I must seize the day (or the night). The thing about that is this – my dad lived his life in perpetual carpe diem mode – indulging his gypsy urges…
They say you can work out religiously but if you stop for a period of two weeks you will lose it all – the cut, the ripple, the tautness of each muscle – gone, vanished. A friend of mine asked once, “where does love go?” No need to question “does absence make the heart grow fonder?” – I know the answer. This morning, the reality that we have been too long apart is palpable across…
Went to Chickie Wah Wah on the spur of the moment last night with G to see Gal Holiday and Ingrid Lucia – saw Gal (her signature bleached blonde hair now subdued into a sultry brunette) but didn’t stay to see the band play because it was almost midnight and the second band hadn’t even started and well, it was a school night (sigh)!
Joe stopped by today to replace two gardenia bushes – they are the latest and greatest “frost-free” gardenia bushes that look like shit, so I am replacing them with the tried and true ones – he asked me if I had heard of the shooting yesterday – “some kid got half his head blown off with an AK47.” I asked him what the hell is going on and he said it’s “beefing” – Rachel –…