I wonder if we stereotype children for having a hyper attention span that annoys to the high heavens. Since I have come down with a fever achey body runny nose the last few days, I tried for some extra sleep this morning while a friend watched Darien at home here. Nothing doing because he tends [...]
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
The Art of Focusing
January 17, 2012
Failure Club
January 16, 2012
How else to succeed besides failure? This last week helped me witness apparent failure and I am damn happy for that. For the sake of emotional safety, I have often created false connections to people–or no connection at all. Yet this changes daily as my capacity to live feeling open and vulnerable is now simply [...]
A Day in the Life
January 3, 2012
Too tempted by a new pair of crystal clear Sony headphones, I cued up a CBS television show that I admire, A Gifted Man. The storyline gently conflicts an ambitious Manhattan brain surgeon with his previous life while married to a doctor working at a low income clinic in rural Alaska. One day his ex-wife [...]
New Year’s Day 2012
January 2, 2012
Truly strange how life cajoles us all to change. What we will do to not change. The resistance! This last year has simply been a shift in perspective creating incremental emotional change over the last twelve months. I thought I had changed, but when a woman I know on the periphery returned to live in [...]
He Did It
November 28, 2011
One squeaky toy that lingers in the basket is a frog that shrills, “I did it.” The first time Darien heard this pitch, he woke up the morning after parroting exactly those words. This happened when he was around 11 months and now he is 13 months old. Truth be told is that he did [...]
Deliciously Ordinary
November 8, 2011
Turns out my life is pretty ordinary for which I am radically happy. So little does it take to create that flapping sardine of joy in my heart. True these fishes have a v-tail that makes them appear to flap around in the water. I guess when you clear out layers and layers of bad [...]
Ch-ch-ch-changes
November 6, 2011
Life takes those nexus points where change must happen. I stand in that crossroad. Might just be internal change, which would be enough. Yet perhaps I will move from San Francisco and start a coffee roasting business in Costa Rica. Or maybe teach English in Jakarta. Or perhaps pick strawberries in Argentina. I simply do [...]
Busted Open Heart
November 1, 2011
A week ago my heart reached that nexus of need to break wide open. Mind you, this meant I simply made a few honest phone calls then sat down to a stiff cup of camomile and mint tea–yes, shockingly my local panaderia sells a mixed tea. My life has reached a plateau of ordinary that [...]
C is for Commitment
September 11, 2011
Finally, we are on the other side of immediate needs for Darien: feeding every two hours, singing softly in the middle of the night, bathing with super care, and watching his every move. He is scheduled for his one year physical in just six weeks. We made it. So far. Yet those first six [...]
Chasing Light Still
May 18, 2011
Sunday evening I angled myself in the living room corner to see the bright moon on my right while I quickly gazed over my left shoulder to catch the sunset. Parenting works like this. Chasing simultaneous shades of light because the moment fleets into memory so quickly. Big puffy crystal white clouds seemed scotch taped [...]
