November 2010
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Happy 100th Birthday Alejandrina!
Feliz Centenario! We were honored to be invited to celebrate the 100th birthday of the grandmother of friends of ours, the West Coast family who adopted us about 20 years ago. Mass was held at her home to honor her, five generations of family were present and the Mariachis played all night! J asked her the secret to her long life and she said, “Solo El Señor sabe.” (Only the Lord...
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On My Nightstand: "Freedom"
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen is a long book (582 pages) and initially I wondered if I would actually finish it. But early on it was clear that I was reading and relishing all the sordid details of the lives of Patty and Walter Berglund and it wouldn’t be a problem completing this task in one week. Woven into the finely detailed personal and relationship struggles are contemporary...
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On The Big Screen
This week I saw a good film—Secretariat, with Diane Lane and John Malkovich.It’s a story about the horse who won the Triple Crown in the early 1970’s and his owner, a housewife who stepped outside the box and took some personal risks to make it all happen. Definitely a feel good movie and I loved the message of the story: choose your race and run it!
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I had an odd sensation in my last two yoga classes. I couldn’t quite figure out what I was feeling, what was different, what was wrong with me. Then it struck me today: Oh, I’m not planning what I need to do today, and I’m not ruminating about things that are bothering me. I’m not worrying about life. Every now and then, something slipped in like, what am I going to make...
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What happened to 70 degrees and sunny?
The weather in San Diego normally consists of two seasons: spring and summer. This year, however, seems different: spring and fall! This is, like, day five in a row of gray skies, drizzly, no sunshine, nothing like we are used to in October. This is like back East: time for soup, boots and—dare I say it?—sweater weather.
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“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our...”
– John Lennon (via kari-shma)
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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
– David Russell (via kari-shma)
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“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via kari-shma)
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“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own...”
– Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
jayro: This quote is so timely for me, I think I am at one of these times. Love it.
“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
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Another Reason I Love Trader Joe's
I just like to go shopping without ducking and dodging the political petitions and the fundraisers. (Although I have stopped for the once a year opportunity to buy Girl Scouts’ Thin Mints cookies.) So there were no solitictors at TJ’s, but there were a few outside of the Henri’s, just a few doors down.
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned...”
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma) 