cloud pearls

We toured the beautiful Urban Assembly New York Harbor School housed in the old Coast Guard Infirmary on Governors Island. Perhaps it is the only school to offer scuba diving as an incentive for good grades.

I got seasick on the 3 minute ride back from Governors Island to Slip 7 in Manhattan last Friday, perhaps the swells were more powerful than usual on account of Nicole, or perhaps it's just part of adjusting to the scope of new horizons I now face as the mother of a 13 year old. All I know is that I am among brave, adventurous and very committed people.

Conditions

Effort is good and bad. The thing about effort is that those things that we work at, perfect hair, skin and teeth, fancy vocabularies, slender limbs, snappy grammar, tight asses, impressive achievement, impeccable ethics, peer approval, astonishing recall, immaculate hygiene, pristine logic, flat abs and charming humor, we put effort into in order to belong. I keep looking for the person /in me/ who still loves when everything has gone wrong. This person is worth waiting for. This person is the point of life. All the boundaries of all conditions, BLOWN OUT.