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jaZZ and raZ-a-ma-taZZ, TIA-style
friends, last weekend i attended the savannah jazz festival up in savannah, to honor and support our good friend and world renown congo player, mr. Big Black. in case you’re wondering, Big Black is very big, and yes, he’s very black. Black, as he’s known to his friends, has played with most of the “old…
Read Morewe’re more similar than dissimilar
hi world, do you recognize yet how much more similar all we humans are than dissimilar? these days i’m thinking about the warm inside feeling i get when i think about behind human, particularly at this auspicious time in human history. things are in such flux, aren’t they? the world is quickly changing. people are…
Read Morepassionate politics
dear friend, the election is fast approaching and with it, passions are flaring, tempers heating, and this is great! NOW is the time for people to express themselves, actively promote their choice, say what they want to say, and defend the position of whatever candidate they’ve chosen to support. it’s talking heads everywhere! for someone…
Read Moreglobal mala
dear One, yesterday we met on St. Augustine beach and formed a human mala; a rosary bead of intent. the focus of our 108 sun salutes, followed by 108 chants of Om was global peace. sending out our prayers as action (hatha yoga asanas) and sound (the seed mantra, Om) was a glorious way to…
Read Morethings are not what they appear to be: ‘rumors and urban legends’
dear One, recently i was sent a list of books “banned” in the alaskan home town of sarah palin, whose alleged consoring (in the local library) was attributed to the republican vice presidential nominee when she was tiny (population 5,000) wasilla’s mayor. turns out, neither the books were never banned, and the controversy surrounding sarah palin instigating the act of…
Read Moreknow-it-all-genarian, my mom
hi everyone, today’s my mom’s ninetieth birthday! Happy b’day Eve! we were looking up in the dictionary what that word would be we’d be calling her, which previously had been “octagenarian” and “septuagenarian,” when lo and behold we realized there IS no word in the two dictionaries i looked, for someone living in their nineties,…
Read Morenifty keen in a pinch
hi friend, oops. please click the page called “nifty keen in a pinch” over on the right. … somehow i’ve made the story of nifty, who hails from harbor le cou, a page, instead of a post. oh, will i ever learn this blogging business? thanks for your extra clicking skills, lordflea
Read Morethe day after another storm hits
hi everyone, for a while there we all felt like singing, to the melody of “the twelve days of Christmas”…on the fourth day of Fay-ay, my true love gave to me. but then she (the hurricane that dissipated into a tropical storm) finally inched her way westward. we had mucho precipitation, but thankfully no major…
Read Morechoose to focus on …
hi friends, we can either focus on the hard stuff in life…the injustices, the gripes, the grief, the dis-ease, pain, evil, hardships and challenges … or … we can focus on something entirely different and break free: i’m sure you’ve had the experience: what you think is what you become. athletes use focusing techniques to win; students ace tests…
Read Moreour best friend, ghee
hi friend, in honor of nancy’s request: here’s how to make ghee (taught to me by ayurvedic friends fresh back from years-long stay, studying in India). start off with frozen (this is my method at least, as i never have time to defrost!) UN-SALTED good-quality butter. please remember that the time you invest in making…
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