From my dear friend Shi: Saint Theresa is known as the Saint of the Little Ways, meaning she believed in doing the little things in life well and with great Love. She is also the patron Saint of flower growers and florists. She is represented by roses. May everyone who receives this message be blessed. REMEMBER to make a wish before you read the prayer. That’s all you have to do. There is nothing attached. Prayer is one of the…
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day My son came home from school and told me that he was so grateful for Martin Luther King Jr. “Mommy, did you know that if he didn’t tell people to be nice to each other, that I wouldn’t have any black kids at my school? I’d only be with other white kids.” Hmmm. I like his “gratefulness,” I think, although I’ve never known him to use that word before. I like that he instinctively…
My step-son (Evan aka Kaotick aka Kaotic) has put up a MySpace page in preparation for his radio debut on an Atlanta hip-hop station later this month. Too bad they wouldn’t allow the best song: “ooo, baby, how was I to know you were a …”
In truth there is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorn New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes,…
Roy Walter N. Jr Nov 5, 1935 – Dec 28, 2003 Miss you, Daddy. Mourning is not forgetting. It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. – Margery Allingham
Maybe I spent too much time wallowing in viral topics for my dissertation, but I’m gradually getting a little concerned. I’m trying to disentangle coincidence, influenza, and another virus with “flu-like symptoms.” The flu virus is spreading fast in the Southeast, with Georgia, Alabama and Florida reporting the highest activity, the CDC says. See the CDC weekly flu map. James Brown died early Christmas morning. Phyllis Brown (widow of DeKalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, who was shot down in his…