A re-write of “The Lightening Storm and the Hurricane” (SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2008) “Live each day like it is your last.” This particular saying both inspires and discourages me. Several months after my best friend, Amanda, passed away, I can look back on her life and see how different she was from everyone I have…
Tag: Living Life
Intrigued and Illuminated
A re-printing of “Intrigued and Illuminated.” (TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008) I went to see Liam Finn play at the Largo at the Coronet on La Cienega Blvd in West Hollywood last Wednesday. I laughed a great deal as he played for a large crowd sitting in a beautiful theatre, but when he (and his partner,…
Flâneur
Dear You, A flâneur. I have become what Charles Baudelaire described as “a person who walks the city in order to experience it.” In the morning, I go to my local café for coffee and walk down beautiful streets lined with dozens of parked cars and magnificent buildings that loom far above me. Each street…