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Developing rather testing intelligence
We went to Tin’s godparents for Christmas dinner and afterwards, while Tin and Evan noodled around on the piano, we talked about the different forms of intelligence. A friend was talking about how intelligence arrives in myriad ways and there really is no test per se to quantify it. There is aesthetic intelligence as well as musical intelligence as well as … . If you gaged the people in New Orleans solely on their musical…
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First things first
Merry Christmas! Next, just want to say that the sky is grey black in New Orleans with tornado warnings, but this morning we were on the bayou, where that photo was taken and we have spent the last 24 hours celebrating our traditions – Christmas Eve with German friends and goose, Christmas day with Mexican friends and pozole, and we aren’t done yet, we still have Christmas dinner to go. Whoosh. In the midst of…
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Excitement fills the air
I got up before dawn and walked Heidi to go look at that lot on the bayou. I have plans you know. Plans to continue onward and upward. Plans not to get stuck in anyone else’s dreams and anyone else’s vision of how my life should flow. It’s Christmas eve and we have our traditional German goose dinner to look forward to as well as Christmas with godparents and then friends arrive from far flung…
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The Bard of the Bayou Holiday Poem
Are We There Yet? ‘Twas the night before Christmas in Bayou St. John And not a creature was stirring, not egret or swan; Not nutria, gator, or unclaimed canoe; Not the Councilmembers or Mayor Landrieu In the midst of whose loftiest dreams butted Head; Not Letten or masked right-hand Mann who was read Her rights, or a stone’s throw from these fallen fellas Ray Nagin who’d taken for granite Fradella; Not the exiled head coach…
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Hashimoto’s and Gluten
So a friend who is gluten intolerant told me that I should look into it because it is usually connected with Hashimoto’s. Everything you read online states the same thing. So I went off gluten, and now every time I have any, I get sick to my stomach. More education is needed on my part – basically you have to just throw it all away and start from scratch and luckily more people in the…
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What is Gangnam Style?
Apparently, Psy’s video hit 1 billion views today for his Gangnam style. As a matter of fact, earlier today a six year old was asking to see the video again. This statistic might be frightening if it meant something, but it means nothing. Meanwhile, Tin and I watched twice – our video limit – the following video and memorized the lyrics (except the Arabic ones). It’s only received a few hundred over a million hits…
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The clueless thoughts by Rachel
I was down the street getting something at the store and ran into neighbors on the bayou and told them about selling the house. He said, “But did you see the pelican today?” And she said, “How could you leave the bayou? We’ve been here for 28 years and I guess once you’ve been here that long, you know we just wouldn’t think of leaving?” How much did you pay for your house – $15K?…
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Lower the flame
I sat on the front porch looking at the pre-dawn light on the bayou and was thinking about building a house. Venus was bright as a bulb in the sky still. I had to laugh at myself. Are you crazy? Yes, I am I told the stars and planets. Crazy to think that I’m trying to simplify and have a blog I’m launching, a project staring down on me for work, a child, and am…
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Inspire me
So the realtor sent over a lot of links to houses that look like houses, and since I’ve not lived in a house that looked like anyone else’s house in a while, I was a little discouraged. And then I went over to pick up the Yat Dictionaries that I had bought for a few friends for the holidays and ran into a woman who had trained Loca when she first came to live with…