secret park

good morning!! had a beautiful morning walk. i'm lucky to be able to spend a lot of time in nyc and get doses of city city city and have the best of LA, living right next to one of LA's richest, virtually secret parks with long hilly paths and stoic, tall trees, plump ones with meandering leaves gyrating slightly in the streams of sun.

last night i went for yucatan with a lebanese twist, in macarthur park (cracka'town). then a play about a couple fighting to figure out attraction to each other after 25 years of marriage. it was hilarious and makes me hesitant to age any more. but that's the fate we all are falling into. le sigh. :*)

tip-o-da-day

hi hi hi!!

i got a request for a ninja tip of the day.

tip-o-da-day:::
spend one moment today to really connect with someone old fashion style. not by email, not by anything using technology. we are talking a hand written letter -(i would be so excited to get a hand written letter in the mail alongside my piles of bills i tend to ignore). or an in person conversation where there's lots of listening, hearing, sharing and maintaining eye contact.

man that can be hard for me. i can get shockingly quite shy when it comes to the eyes.

hhhmmm i'm eating a pear with honey! speaking of honey - my dad is a bee keeper. seriously how fkg cool is my dad?

both my parents - at some point i turned the corner from resentment and walls to openness and appreciation for who they are as humans. i tell the actual epiphany hospital style tale in the book.

i was sharing with my dad that the book i'm currently writing takes place in the jungle of brazil and he said, 'let's go!' and i'm like, 'wtf? really? that would be so cool.' honestly? there's no one i'd rather go with. most of my friends, i'm afraid, couldn't go as fast and gritty as i'd adventure. and although i'm dating several neeto guys, none that are foreign country worthy (yet). my dad is the man in my life! and it's so very cool that he wants to support that part in me. i've been nose deep in library books and although i'm an imaginative person, it would be so much stickier and tangible to be immersed. the funny part is the area i want to go to is the most peculiar and unglamourous. naturally. but it's where the story takes place. wow.

my parents are so cool. so individual. so respectable. both of them. so supportive and kind and generous and open. such a gift in my life to share with them.

expand

good mornin' ninjas. i'm taking a friend on a food adventure this morning. i'll tell you where later - shhh secret.

ninja tip of the day :: always expand. if you're not expanding - your retracting. say yes to invitations this week. make plans for something entirely odd. in between bursts of sweet expansion, take some nesting time. i value more and more my quiet nesting time. i'm always so on the go go go, but when i finally quiet down? that's when the super cool thoughts have time to sink in and ferment.

xoxo :*)