Favorite text messages
From Tea, 08/04/07 Thanks for the surprise B-day gift, but where are my falafel tacos? From Belen, 11/16/07 Belen loves you and wishes to remind you what a phenomenal womanhumananimal you are. She also apologizes for txting in 3rd person- she is distracted with a taco From Annika, before she left for New Zealand-12/12/07-after a round of “I was... [Read more...]
The Art of Choice
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing.html I can hardly add anything to this video, as it is one of the most masterful, thoughtful, thorough, and provocative presentations on Choice I’ve ever seen.I can only say how relieved I am, how recognized I feel, about the increasing paralyzation that occurs when I have... [Read more...]
Meditations in Portland
I was in Portland, Or, recently to visit my best friend and new baby. Portland was so wonderful this trip. The atmosphere here feels, and pulls at me, much stronger than it has before.I’ve been saying it for years, that I knew I was going to move back here…you know, “someday”—“someday” (what is it about that word that we love so much?)... [Read more...]
35th Birthday
This year marked the passing of my 35 years of existence on this little blue ball. It’s been a wild ride, tha’ts for sure. I’ve been experiencing pangs around this one. Pangs of the not-married, don’t-have-children, haven’t-opened-my-business variety. I feel the distinctive loss of frailty. The loss of ignorance. If I... [Read more...]
Who do you answer to?
I got to thinking about a phrase the other day.. “May he who is without sin, cast the first stone.” I can picture a whole angry mob, cowering over some thief/whore/bad politician, some coward who’s fractured spirit is racked with pain and defiance, kneeling in the dirt, being given a small chance by this phrase, for those ‘above’... [Read more...]
