Twelve months ago in April I started The Eloquent Soul blog! Eleven months ago in May I spent my first Mother’s Day without a mother. Ten months ago in June I donned a Godzilla suit and tortured a baby. Nine months ago in July I directed the play Don Quixote… with a cast of six-year [...]
Category Archives: gifts
Build it like a bird – The Artist’s Purpose
March 4, 2011 – 5:36 pm
A few years ago I was in the Natural History Museum in New York taking a tour with a wise and bespectacled tour guide. At the end of the tour, which had covered a lot of dinosaur bones and evolutionary type exhibits, he posed this question to the group: What differentiates humans from the animals? [...]
Christmas Confuses Me
December 24, 2010 – 8:13 am
When I was a little girl Christmas made sense: You wake up as soon as you hear an adult turn over in their bed and scramble downstairs. The next three hours are spent asking your Grandma if you can wake your mother up yet. Finally your mother rolls into the den and you spend 20 [...]
I do not like stuff Sam I am
September 14, 2010 – 4:14 pm
Lately I’ve been thinking about my stuff. Not the emotional “stuff” we carry around but all the actual stuff that is filling my apartment, car and storage unit. The things that are making me feel heavy, congested and slow. And as I try to get rid of these things I have come to realize that [...]
SURPRISE!
July 23, 2010 – 12:00 pm
The email said “If you can come at 12:20 tomorrow we have a little surprise…”. I LOVE surprises! If the Devil himself sent me this message I would arrive at his hellish door by 12:20 to see what would happen. (note to Devil – you’ve got a live one here) Fortunately it was my friend [...]
Daddy’s little girl
June 20, 2010 – 10:45 am
I was, and will always be, my daddy’s little girl. I was never his teenager or young woman or adult daughter because he passed away when I was eight. I don’t have many memories of him left but the prevading feeling I carry is that I LOVED being with him. This is my favorite [...]
My Why
May 5, 2010 – 8:11 am
When I was a little girl being a Hand Analyst wasn’t on my list of ”That’s what I want to be when I grow up”. Professions that were on my list: Ice Skater Ballerina Actor Teacher Chef [...]
