Heidi went to live with Tatjana when we moved away from the LaLa but she never really left my heart. Shepherds are a dog apart from other breeds. They exist to remind us that we are sentient beings with a soul because their eyes reveal theirs so clearly. These German Shepherds bond so tightly with their human comrades that they don’t recognize they are a different species – we are one in their mind. Heidi…
Thoughts of the week: I woke this morning with a clear vision that you meet people where they are at, and sometimes where they are at, is not where it’s at. Enough said. Proceed with love.
Tin has rhythm, no doubt about it. He has been fooling around with music since the day he could move his body on his own. And he loves to draw and I’ve seen those drawings go from trying to draw a straight line to squiggles to trains and planes and automobiles. He’s also a master builder and has taken his blocks and created the Superdome and he’s even created a space landing station that was…
Tomorrow morning someone dear to me is having surgery. My prayers tonight are simply: this chapter ends with that being the story – a dear friend of mine had surgery, and we all went on with our wonderful lives.
Someone once told the anecdote of the woman who inherited her great grandmother’s roast pans along with her recipe. Take a large rump roast and cut it in half, put one half in each pan, and season well then cook. No one knew why the great grandmother had split the roast but each generation kept doing it because it was so delicious. Turns out the grandmother only had two small pans and not one large…
TGIF has come to represent many different acronyms – depending on the mood: THANK GOD I’M FABULOUS – is my default chant. THANK GOD IT’S FILM(NIGHT) – is Tin’s chant since Friday’s are movie night. THANK GOD I’M FINISHED – is my end of project whoop. After years of my prayers of asking for forgiveness, I’ve shifted all my prayers to avowing gratitude instead. I am thankful morning, noon and night. Gratitude oozes from my…
I was on Pinterest looking for natural hairstyles for my friend’s 14 year old daughter in hair crisis and I came across this site for Bald women. There were also tee shirts that said BALD IS BEAUTIFUL. We had just spent forty five minutes telling the 14 year old to embrace what is hers, to own it, to not want what she doesn’t have. So today, Friday, TGIF, thank god I’m fabulous day, I want…
I put tonight on my calendar along with the other events that I put on my calendar but never attend, but I knew I would go to this one, even if it meant Tin would be in tow. Right before the Dalai Lama arrived in New Orleans, Rodger Kamenetz wrote an essay about him that was so moving, I was compelled to learn more about Kamenetz. He is the author of The Jew in The…
I read the Obit today in the NYT for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and I am once again wondering how to deal with the lack of greatness in a great man. Here you have the leading Torah authority in Israel and the world, a Sephardic* rabbi, which in and of itself is odd since like here in the U.S. it is those of European descent who claim authority over any ruling, and yet the turn towards…
When I was a child, my parents would take us to the Mardi Gras fountain on Lakeshore Drive and they would buy us an ice cream or popcorn and then we’d stroll around and around the fountain. I remember those visits as encompassing almost the sum total of my childhood. It would just have become dark, the humid air would still be warm from the day, the colors of the fountain were exciting and mesmerizing.…