20 Years
From my visit to The National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Continue reading 20 Years
Category: Photography
RIP Laura Bergerol
It’s with shocked sadness that I found out that friend and former NOLAfemmes contributor Laura Bergerol has passed away. NOLAfemmes was a group blog I created in 2009 that focused on New Orleans culture and politics. It closed in 2015. … Continue reading RIP Laura Bergerol
Happy Bright Labor Day
I’m feeling grateful today that my power was restored last night. It went out at 4:30 pm on 8/29 as the winds of Hurricane Ida were accelerating around my house. Thankfully, we emerged with no damage to the house and … Continue reading Happy Bright Labor Day
Hearts
So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end – not mother and father, not wife or … Continue reading Hearts
Just is
“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.” —- from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Van Arnim Continue reading Just is
Fold us into Velvet
darkness of eyes, darkness of cloudsflowing off the Gulf,lamps will not light this place as cerulean yields to burgundyas night folds us into velvet,when we sleepyou sometimes hold my hand —— from “When You Sleep Without Pain” by Peach Delphine … Continue reading Fold us into Velvet
Faith
“I’m an optimist, but a melancholy one—the sort who doesn’t believe that everything is great, but knows it isn’t and believes that it’ll be okay anyway. Maybe a better word for that is faith.” — Cheryl Strayed Continue reading Faith
Oak Tree and Fern
“Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine sifted through the young green leaves. Gay trills of song were everywhere. There were little hollows … Continue reading Oak Tree and Fern
Morning Meditation: Daily Sprinkles
Sprinkle immune support powder on the cats’ food cheese on the dogs’ food sunflower seeds beneath the squirrel’s perch nutrients on roses water on zinnias pebbles around the succulents wonder in your eyes music in your ears earth beneath your … Continue reading Morning Meditation: Daily Sprinkles
Morning Meditation: Stumbling
Wake up each morning with a grateful heart because what else can we do? Our path is short, stones poke and roll under our feet, we stumble. But nine times out of ten, we catch ourselves, look up, bathe our … Continue reading Morning Meditation: Stumbling
