In the airport on the way home from a business trip, I came across the book “Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World” by Gretchen Rubin. I highly recommend it – it’s a quick read, self-help but in a practical non-preachy way. From this…
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A meditation or two
On Mother’s Day I decide to go to Whole Foods to buy enough flowers to fill vases all through the house. I usually go there to buy a tiny $10.00 clutch of posies – they fit perfectly in a small sweet vase I put on the mantel and I try to replace them regularly. I…
Jazz Festing
We went to jazz fest last Sunday. We brought camp chairs this time and parked at the Fais Do Do stage all day. Jazz Fest is set up at the 145 acre racetrack and fairgrounds, with over a dozen stages and tents hosting acts simultaneously. The Fais Do Do area is where the zydeco and…
What the pandemic hath wrought
I can remember at some point in maybe 2019 (nope – it was April 2018, I wrote briefly about it!) marveling about how we had landed right where I wanted to be. A neighborhood where our kids ran in packs with the neighborhood kids, and ate dinner at whatever house they happened to be in…
Hi!
I’m just gonna write something. I have a million drafts, just the usual. Day to day, vacation, trips, nothing special. I miss having the record. It doesn’t need to be perfect, right? It’s ok if I don’t post a lot of pictures because it takes a frickin’ year for them to upload. Right? We just…