Tomorrow! The Ides of March, the Oscars, and what would be my Julius’ 37th birthday! Reflecting: Decades ago, as a single mother, my daughters would periodically covet something of mine that I was not ready to ‘hand over’ and so the phrase
Sitting in my car in the Santa Monica Staples parking lot, gathering documents once again for FEMA,….a gorgeous Afro American woman pulled into the parking space next to me, climbed out of her car with a tiny dog dressed in ballet clothes,
My friend, my brother in spirit, has been on the frontlines of world crises for decades…Afghanistan, Yemen, Nigeria, and on and on…he ran a hospital in Gaza for two years and has been doing the same in Jordan for the last 18
My mother’s mother was a formal, formidable aristocrat. She was born in the 1880’s at a time in history when women were not widely educated. She earned a college degree and in the early 1900’s became a librarian. My grandfather, as a
Every Sunday for the year following the fire, I drove up to where my home had been…to stand and look out at the ocean from where my bedroom window used to be….to feel the wind….to sit with my fig tree….to digest and
TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN Two days ago another of my special friends was plucked by God, in her sleep, completely out of the blue to work from the other side. One cannot live well into one’s seventh decade without having experienced the
Channeled Chimes was born from a glow that ripples, tickles and soars through my being, at the majesty of simply inhabiting the earth in this body at this time with all of its creatures and creations and you. Thank you for joining me! Shall we dance?
I am a writer, including screenplays, a poet, a tapestry artist , a teller of stories, a singer of songs, who lives in a cottage by the sea. I have been a teacher,
an actress, a children’s theater director, a counselor for women with breast cancer, a grief counselor, a massage therapist, a filmmaker and a rollerblade champion.
I grew up in South India and Sri Lanka, and have lived in such colorful places as New Orleans, Charleston, Boulder, Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Minneapolis, New England and Malibu.
I have two grown daughters that I raised alone, I have four grandchildren, at different times I have had three golden retrievers and I look forward to having another!
In the birthday greeting words of an old friend:
“You are a wonder, you are light, you are a free spirit, a meditative soul, and a magical mamgee. When I think of you, I see you flying high, the whole world far below.
You skate with abandon, you have the heart of a child, and you see the world through the eyes of a poet. You are a craftsman of words, a teller of tales, and a dreamer of dreams. This Earth is a far richer and more joyful place because of your birth!”
I am herewith acknowledging Norman, my former husband and forever soulmate and heart’s friend for creating this website.
We are all blessed!
Thanks for the photos to Pexels.com and all of the creative artists
