A full morning of work calls, when the A/C man finally shows up to fix the air conditioner that has been broke for two weeks – last night I tossed and turned with two fans on high directly on me as the temperature in the bedroom approached 90 degrees – on a call, I ushered in the workmen – they go up in the attic and break the fire alarm wire – trigger the alarm…
I woke up this morning at 5AM and snuck out of bed to get my Blackberry (trying not to wake up Loca) because in the absence of the real thing, I rush to get T’s morning email message. I lay back in the bed and read her million kisses from the airport and thought that soon she will be home and we will have a couple of weeks together before she leaves again. I was…
This year I get my sabbatical – it couldn’t have come at a better time with meeting Tatjana and our plans – I will travel to Budapest for a conference and learn first hand more about an area of media that I have been covering. I will then travel to Croatia – to Zagreb, to the sea coast, to Hvar, Dubrovnik, Split, and other towns and experience a country that I have never even thought…
Again and Again by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others fall: again and again the two of us walk out together under the ancient trees, lie down again and again among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
J – “Did you know that dog poop is fertilizer?” .. R – “I’m not sure about that – I think chicken poop is fertilizer but not sure about dog poop.” .. J – “Uh huh, it is. I know it is because R [editor’s note: his friend who is a know it all] told me.” .. R – “Well who died and made R an expert in fertilizer?” .. J – “It’s true, how…
YELLOW by Coldplay — Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you, And everything you do, Yeah, they were all yellow. I came along, I wrote a song for you, And all the things you do, And it was called yellow. So then I took my turn, Oh what a thing to have done, And it was all yellow. Your skin Oh yeah, your skin and bones, Turn into something beautiful, You know,…
T minus ten still equals R minus T, but it is starting to feel like she is on the way home rather than on her way out. I’m getting the grocery list together for when she comes back – her yogurt and coffee, the chocolate covered cherries and her cookies. The list sits on the counter and makes her return seem more imminent. A great love requires adjustments – she’s used to her four or…
The day was just too beautiful to believe. I Skyped with T and then was going to go down and finish the Almodovar movie we had started when she was here but it was just too beautiful outside to be inside so I went on the front porch with an ice cold Tecate beer with a half a lime squeezed in it and sat there waving and watching the action. Then I took Loca down…
We all met at Cafe Rani after the ride for lunch in the courtyard under the huge oak tree named Branche Du Bois. One of my friends whose partner is away on business and who has been away since January, was talking about how hard it is. She said she missed her girlfriend because she’s so fun, and now without her there is no fun. I said, I know, I miss my girlfriend because she…
The MS bike group decided to ride the levee, meeting at the Fly behind the zoo and headed out to Kenner. I decided to just ride from home to get some extra miles and so I was a little behind the group for most of the ride. I was marveling at the difference of riding along the muddy Mississippi and turning the corner where the Gemini parties used to be out in the houses/camps on…