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Playa magic vs expectations

ExperiencesSeptember 26, 2023161Views 0Likes 0Comments

For those who've been to Burning Man (the big one) and regionals locally, there is this thing often called "playa magic." While I don't know of any official description, I'd offer it's in the realm of this almost-beyond-possibility frequency with which the timing of what you need and that thing/person/experience appearing showing up. It happens…

My purple & pink plaid bell bottoms

MemoriesSeptember 26, 2023316Views 0Likes 0Comments

Life goes up and life goes down. Events go here and events go there. Emotions and experiences and feelings of hope and belief, or despair and desperation, go up and down and here and there and all over the place. At least that has been my experience ... . In 2006 I was in just such…

There are moments …

ExperiencesSeptember 24, 2023364Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are moments in life when you discover things about yourself. And others. Back in the day, I was the theme camp organizer for a lovely group of people at Burning Man (More Carrot, or the Carrots. we were), and we brought a farmers' market gifting fresh produce to people at the event, though that detail isn't…

It’s a cycle

CultchaSeptember 23, 2023242Views 0Likes 0Comments

Just finished my third listen of Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning is Here. OMG, OMG, OMG. The sense this man makes. Here's a bit from the tail end of his book, in which he reminds us how each generation (each of which is a specific archetype) contributes perfectly to Society. Without the Hero (…

The right to a middle-class existence

CultchaSeptember 15, 2023248Views 0Likes 0Comments

Said it before and I'll say it again: Expect more strikes and union demands as #Millennials and their team-we-us energy travels with them as they age. (They're 41 at the top end this year, 18 at the bottom.) Can you even imagine Gen Xers rallying and demanding more support, rights and protections for their generation? Hah. Never.…

Ratscallions!

Little BitsSeptember 13, 2023235Views 0Likes 0Comments

Don't you just love a good citizen patrol? Especially when one involves urban-dwelling dogs, (the Ratscallions) and their owners as they take their dogs rat hunting in particularly invested areas in NW DC, especially AdMo? Urban dog owners and rat hunting in D.C. Who knew it was a thing? Apparently, it is. Or is becoming more…

Just doing their job

MemoriesSeptember 11, 2023265Views 0Likes 0Comments

The #GenX generation, by its archetypal nature and location in history, is an under-protected, under-acknowledged and under-appreciated generation. And that's okay. Gen Xers are a survivalist generation more focused on, well, survival, the physical world and their small band of tribe than they are on government, the collective and teams. They are also the "dirty jobs"…

Shrubs!

Little BitsSeptember 4, 2023212Views 0Likes 0Comments

I started hearing about/reading about shrubs a couple-few years ago. These are a pre-canning, pre-refrigeration way of "putting up" excess fruits (and some vegetables) from the farm or garden, mostly by way of mashing, adding sugar, letting things sit a bit then straining the fruit out, adding vinegar and--voilà--you now have a fairly shelf-stable, ready-to-use,…

This price ain’t right

Things I PonderSeptember 4, 2023415Views 0Likes 0Comments

Shopping earlier today at a local thrift store--as I do here and there--I spotted this bit of ridiculousness. A cheap, thin, no-big-deal shirt originally priced at $5 got priced by someone at 2nd Avenue Thrift Store at a whopping $11.99. That's more than double the original retail price of the item. How does that make any…

JOMO

NatureSeptember 3, 20232KViews 0Likes 2Comments

JOMO. Apparently, it's a term, a word, an acronym that has been around for awhile, though it's one I only heard for the first time last night at a party of mostly Burners-not-at-Burning-Man who had gathered--as happens often--on "Burn Night" (the last Saturday during Burning Man when The Man burns). JOMO is the JOY of Missing…

So many moons!

SynchronicitiesAugust 30, 2023219Views 0Likes 0Comments

How's this for fabulous? I met for lunch earlier today Jean Moon , my mentor and client from decades back and someone with whom I hadn't caught up for several years. (It was wonderful. Seeing her was soul-filling, and The Turn House in Columbia, where we met, has such…

A bigger world

ExperiencesAugust 29, 2023314Views 1Like 0Comments

First, to all of you who wrote on my Facebook timeline or sent me messages on my birthday, thank you! It's wonderful and overwhelming at the same time. As one who spent years (decades) under-celebrating her life, hiding in group photos, twisting my priorities to put other's needs before my own, and basically trying…