i have this idea that being an anomalous presence on the street opens up minds and creates space for others less brave than me… that being the self i want to be helps open space for all kinds of being of selves as they want to be…
this morning, in front of the Yankee Clipper diner… an older white man in t-shirt, shorts, sneakers, socks… standing beside his car… i take him to be waiting for the diner to open… unexpectedly, he says good morning and asks me how i am doing… he is not the sort of man i expected to exchange pleasantries with me… he looks conservative… i am wearing a sleeveless gray knit maxi dress… necklace, bracelets, and dark red lipstick… i am pleased with the way he seems to accept me as i am… i wish him a good morning and move on with a smile…
yesterday, i was grateful for a clean house and laundry done…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market and a movie…
does anyone have experience with the Punkt phone or recommendations of other minimalist phones?… looking to wean myself (maybe) from smartphones…
yesterday i was grateful for lunch with Holly and her brothers, and improvement to my shoulder condition which allowed me to drive to Danbury and back without too much discomfort…
today i am looking forward to physical therapy, lunch with Holly and the nail salon afterwards…
yesterday i was grateful for Pilates with Tessa and witnessing a readthrough of our friend Gwenno’s new musical, as well as the local talent who brought it to life…
today i am looking forward to lunch with my brothers-in-law, a Costco shopping run and possibly a stop at Danbury Fair Mall…
who, from the conservative side, is trying to take DT down?… Musk?… JD?…
Sadie Gurman, Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey, and Alex Leary of the Wall Street Journal dropped a story just after 3:00 this afternoon, reporting that Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy informed Trump in May that his name appeared “multiple times” in the Epstein files.
yesterday I was grateful for Sean and Dave my physical therapy team…
today I am looking forward to a read through of our friends new musical…
yesterday, I was grateful for Cousin Sue and Charles Osgood’s Martini glass….
today, I am looking forward to physical therapy, which I am praying helps this annoyingly persistent pain in my shoulder…
yesterday, I was grateful for friends and the five turkeys we harvested that we might feed ourselves and others…
today I am looking forward to a morning of normal routines and the farmers market…
yesterday, i was grateful for restorative yoga with Maryanne, and for the two women who told me they loved my yoga outfit…
today, i am looking forward to a doctor’s visit to see if we can sort out the somewhat debilitating pain in my right shoulder…
yesterday, i was grateful for a chat with my cousin and food delivery from Isamu because i really didn’t feel like cooking…
today I am looking forward to coffee at K&C and a productive day of reading, writing, and photo editing…
yesterday i was grateful for Geenno at Allsport, lunch with Holly and SciFi book club…
today i am looking forward to analog journaling and maybe pilates with Tessa…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Anne and receipt of a new analog journal…
today i am looking forward to lunch with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for an afternoon at the movies with Holly…
today i am looking forward to the arrival of analog journaling and note taking supplies and yoga with Anne…
yesterday i was grateful to the dogs for taking us out to see the magical fireflies…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market…
yesterday i was grateful for a salon afternoon with Karen, Gina and Joanna…
today i am looking forward to household chores and setting up for a turkey harvest…
men should learn that embracing feminine qualities is not a failure of manhood… to be egalitarian, nurturing, centered on power with, not over, does not make a man incapable of manliness… anymore than a woman’s being assertive and authoritative makes her incapable of being womanly when she wants to be… the qualities of masculine and feminine can be embraced and enacted by men or women… we need a culture that values a fluid masculine/feminine spirit…
yesterday i was grateful for my get together with Adi and Sunny Nail Spa for a wonderful mani/pedi…
today i am looking forward to the ladies at Beauty Ritual and getting my hair trimmed…
yesterday i was grateful for coffee and shopping with a friend…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga with Maryanne and a mani/pedi at Sunny Nails…
yesterday i was grateful for a good photo salon, especially the beautiful flowers by Steve…
today i am looking forward to coffee with a friend and pilates with Tessa…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Julian, who substituted for Anne…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne, lunch with my beautiful wife Holly, and in person photo salon…
yesterday i was grateful for Step and Lukie, new friends, kale and scallions from my garden and Arival, the movie, which we watched for the fourth or fifth time…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Anne abd working on a new blog post…
is it paranoid to think that white nationalist militias have or will become the foot soldiers of ICE?…
my feminine, almost two years in :: Essays On Attention Paid
i believe in the power of feminine… having learned that women are every bit as capable of exercising the power of patriarchal structure, in dominating patriarchal ways, i realized it was the egalitarian and nurturing qualities we associate with the feminine that were important and sadly withered across much of human history… i am trying to puzzle out why masculine has been so dominant since time out of mind almost…