boundaries
January 6, 2010
- January 6 Hand Me Down Pain You have sent a cold thing into my heart it causes my feet to move me away from you. It need not be spoken of this is a thing of ice and lead. Words are no help here action is the only cure. Eternity can be spent with a soul bisected by slivers. Stepping the willing way to joy and freedom seems so unlikely from this frosty local. Make my mind up I ...
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November 18, 2009
- I have been realizing these last few days that I have been allowing other people's negative energy to creep in again.For a few weeks I was able to stand firm,centered,able to let others own their own stuff,but yesterday someone I am acquainted with was very impatient with me for not understanding a computer game(mechanical things being my nemisis)For the whole day this dark cloud hung over me,and ...
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September 28, 2009
- I'm going to have to post a picture of this pie. It's too delicious!Doesn't that just look yummy?? I'm sure when I was lying awake half the night I actually had a blog idea. And this wasn't it. That much I do know. It had something to do with yesterday's topic. I was kinda hoping it would resurface now that I've had a coffee.Apparently not. I'll get back to you on that!Meanwhile I'm having ...
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July 26, 2009
- Happily at home in Istanbul in 2007, I flipped through Unsuitable for Ladies. Edited by Jane Robinson, this anthology of female travel writing crisscrosses the globe and stretches back into ancient history. Complete candy for me.Around the same time I was ruminating in an essay for a global nomad magazine why I’ve come to employ a defensive strategy for my expatriatism. Sense of self is my ...
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May 10, 2009
- In each of us is a biotch. Many of us are taught to suppress this biotch from childhood. To be "nice" we must dissociate ourselves from it.What a load of phooey.This happens much more with women than men, because our society teaches women that they must take all the BS they get from others and be "nice" all the time. That if they aren't "nice" all the time then they ...
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April 12, 2009
- COWBOY UP: Part 1 I was six-years-old when John Wayne made his last movie, The Shootist. Not a big fan of westerns, I’ve never even seen it. But, in the last few weeks, I’ve learned I’m more cowboy than not. Hearing my broken-hearted tears over the phone, my friend Colin packaged up a book, Cowboy Ethics by James P. Owen, and sent it up to me with this inscription: “Jules, see ...
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December 10, 2008
- ...a big mess!I'm told that most folks have some sort of family drama around the Christmas season. I guess it's inevitable. Especially when you get more than one family involved, it seems impossible to please everyone—or maybe to please anyone. I'm also told that maintaining one's "boundaries" are important a this time. Or any time.Personally, I do my best to try to stay out of the ...
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June 17, 2008
- As Valerie Martin's Trespass opens, Chloe Dale is lunching in a chic Manhattan restaurant just before the second Iraq war. She is there to meet her son Toby's girlfriend, Salome Drago, for the first time. Salome, an intense, brusque Catholic Croat, is a refugee, along with her brother and father, from the Balkans. To Chloe, she is also "the vengeful orphan, the ungrateful outsider, the ...
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