Today was a bastion of mini crises and in the end there was only one word to chant and meditate on – faith. When a friend called with a real scare, I said don’t think the worst case scenario, wait till you have the facts. When another friend brought up a difficult subject, I sent a note off in faith that it would be heard – you heard? When I turned a corner and saw…
Have you considered how often you don’t live in the present unless of course you are toiling at a work project?How everything else seems to be lived in hindsight and on the wings of hope and expectation?They say to live in the moment.They say to be present.They say today is all we have. I say we live with one hand leaving the trapeze bar and our other hand reaching for the one coming towards us –…
Ever since J turned 4, he’s been older. That sounds dumb, but it’s strange how marked the age is in him all of a sudden. He wasn’t allowed to watch Star Wars before and now that is all he wants to watch is The Empire Strikes Back. And he reminds me of W at that age storing up all the minutia of details in his mind and correcting me at every turn. He was chattering…
My affirmations are pretty fabulous most days but today – you gotta love this one. Again, I found myself trying to stop the chatter in my mind – the kind where you begin with faith and then battle uncertainty and try to work your way to confidence – it’s like some ongoing tug of war between the part of you that knows no matter what things are going to be good and the other part…
A friend forwards an email from another friend – apparently MORE magazine wrote an article about mid life love – the person sending the email says she has no romantic love to speak of but that she is happy with her friends and her life without it right now. I tell my friend – you know I could easily write the same thing – that life without romantic love is fun, exciting, and all good.…
And that would be this date, today, the first day of the rest of my life, unagi – the rush of the day, of the gotta do, gotta get to it feeling that started the day is so palpable that I am moving at warp speed already and it’s only 8:30AM. Here’s a thought for the day – if today were it, the last day, the only day that matters – what would you do…
A friend of mine made the comment that a mutual friend was behaving like she was still in high school. You hear this a lot especially amongst girls – so high school – but the truth is that nobody really changes much from who they were in high school. The type of person we are then is the type of person we are now. If you were a bitch and pretentious and snotty – there…
Almost five years ago I got the phone call that one of my clients had committed suicide and it still pains me to think about him and his life cut short. The odd thing was that I had been going through my daily notebook looking for something when I stumbled upon a page from a month earlier where he had called me and I wrote in all caps “SUNSHINE” because that was him. He had…
J and I rode bikes to Elizabeth’s this morning since the water was off in the neighborhood and we wanted breakfast. We rode through the hood taking GRSJ to Gentilly and over to Bayou Road and then down the back streets to get off Esplanade and then through the Marigny and Bywater to the levee – and there is something about riding my bike in New Orleans past the shotgun doubles and ancient architecture that…
Endymion is rolling Midcity and yesterday taking mom to Blue Plate on Magazine for delicious eggs with creamed spinach – we drove smack into the floats that were going down Tulane. How exciting! Today, we laid out a plan for our Endymion party – I called Downtown Karen Brown to ask about the daiquiri machine because I’m thinking Voodoo Daiquiris and Jambalaya. Duh! That’s a no-brainer – of course!