Run Thee Amok With Tulle
I’m not talking about “casual heedlessness” here. It is impossible to be unhappy in a tutu.
I’m not talking about “casual heedlessness” here. It is impossible to be unhappy in a tutu.
Potters not only bring an element of art into everyday life, they make everyday things more human. There’s a connection between the maker and the user.
My most favorite New Year’s Eve ever, and the one I try to replicate whenever possible, was the year my morose cartoonist boyfriend dumped me right around Christmas.
When did we become so pragmatic? At what point did we start needing to see a tangible benefit to things?
“Thanksgiving” is an in-and-out kind of word. It inhales thanks and exhales giving. It can’t only do one, or it will pass out in the turnips.
Do I “feel the absence of” a functioning kitchen?
Please, have you seen my kitchen? Blech. You bet I feel it.
A long weekend at a Zen monastery, no visual statements to distract me, I stopped seeing myself as my clothes. BY COLUMNIST SUSAN BLOOD
Being patient might look like you’re taking it easy on somebody else, but it’s really taking it easy on yourself.
I could be wrong but I think if all our decisions are love-based instead of fear-based, we find ourselves in less of a blur. Someone please try that and let the rest of us know how it goes. By Susan Blood.