Today, I came up with an idea for a float in the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. It would be called Old Fart Float and older women would get a free ride around town and show their down sloping breasts. We would allow older men on, but no one would want to [...]
Today, I spied a worried woman, who was too concerned to say hello to me and my dog on my daily walk by the sea. I live in Richmond, Virginia but walk by the sea each day. Long commute with [...]
Today, I spent the morning in seclusion doing as I do on a lazy Saturday: grocery shopping, napping, and making lunch for me. These are new rituals as I am working part-time. When I worked full-time, I’d sleep in and stay in bed till twelve. Now that time is my own, [...]
I found a particle of a dream yesterday in a date I had with a man I yearn for. He has so many qualities that I like that I freeze up when I encounter him. I think he goes into a frentic act when we’re together. I don’t know what that means [...]
Today, I spied a neighbor on her front porch doing an incredible job of doing nothing. She just sat there, her grumpy self and sat. I usually try to understand something when I sit: noticing the trees, the grass, my dog, the houses, the children playing and usually [...]
I am still trying to prove that I am not as shy as I think I am.
Yesterday, I spoke about being offered an actress role and saying no. Part of my reasons as well is that I am shy and don’t want to stand [...]
I followed a star across the horizon and was forlorn: so many of our stars are gone blank at sunset.
I am talking about the Hollywood stars; we are a nation of papparazzi and can’t voyeur enough. We think the crazy life of action and doing is [...]
I saw today a spatter of rain on the car as I did errands this morning, deciding not to write at the coffee shop but instead to write at home.
What did that do to me? It gave me an uncomfortable feeling and I love [...]
Thomas Merton says that we have to be in our sorrow to be truly contemplative and to know God truly. I think we all have vast sorrows to live through but there is another side to them, till the next one comes. Sorrow is inclusive of all of [...]
What transforms you? The ordinary or the exalted?
I use to search out the exalted, traveling thousands of miles to Japan, Nepal, even Bangkok, where the ordinary for them transformed me–more on that later, about a year from now–now, I search for it in my [...]