I spoke today with a long-time source in media and we reminisced about all the changes that have occurred in this industry since we began speaking nearly two decades ago. He said to me, “We just met about reorganizing the entire agency.” I asked him what they planned to do and this was the kicker, he said they didn’t know, but whatever they are going to do, it is going to be different from what…
I live now in a small room with my desk (work) on one side and my day bed (rest) on the other side. A large photograph of my mother is over my bed alongside a portrait of Tin. I think about my mother often and how brave and strong she was, and how I really did not understand this until she had passed. Today I remember her beauty and how she created beauty and always,…
Happy Passover y’all. Tin and I had our matzo and talked about when the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt and how they fled and didn’t have time for the bread to rise and so that is why we eat matzo to remember. He’s four and basically now knows that his ancestors and his mother’s ancestors have been slaves at one point in history. I wrote about it in my blog on race and parenting.…
I have never considered myself a person who would be or feel trapped in anything. After all I learned from a master, my father, that if you don’t like something, change it – as he did many many times over again. But I spent a good many days, weeks, months and years feeling trapped like rodentia – backed into a corner of my own making. And it took a health crisis for me to face…
Last night, friends came over and it ended up being one of those late nights where you are just laughing about the whole shebang – my kind of night. This morning I headed to meditation to sit with myself and practice mind erasing. A friend had gone on my recommendation and it was interesting to see zendo from another’s eyes. The talk afterwards was about why we sit but also about the delusion of habitual…
Last night I went with some friends to see the Pedrito Martinez Group at Tipitinas – the band was fantastic! Tight and this guy Pedrito is so awesome but the rest of the band is fabulous too – the woman on the keyboards – lord today! – fabulous.
My friend was riding around with me today and said that she is enjoying Thus Spoke Zarathustra and she was reading me passages as we drove around the city. I told her my favorite line is this one: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I bought a day pass to the Tennessee Williams Festival yesterday and I must say as conferences go, this one never disappoints. I saw four panels – ranging from New Orleans in the 1920s: Bohemia, Baby Dolls and Storyville, The Art of the Debut, Writers on their First Books, Creole Women and Free People of Color. I felt as if I had sat down and read 20 books after it was over. I learned more,…
or rather he never left. Yes, it’s that time of year again when the Tennessee Williams Fest is happening and there is a lot going on. Tomorrow’s roster is chock a block full of interesting sessions and I will be there to be inspired – from Babydolls to Creole Women to Free People of Color, I plan to spend my day away from the usual and steeped in the interesting. I met an incredible woman…
Yesterday was not a good day and let me tell you why, because I woke up cranky and that means that all of that bonhomie I’ve been espousing lately had all vanished when my eyes opened to greet the day. I conjured up a good many things that I could blame for it – not wanting to do what I had to do that day, having to resort to Option D on a project I…