In Celebration of Mother's Day, Neo Soul's "Hands"

My Mom (Dorothy) holding my cousin Dodie,
flanked by her sisters
Loyce and Glad

Nurse "Dot"

Friends of the Park Workday

This is the last FOP workday in the cycle.  

We take a summer break then come back in September:

http://www.lakewayfop.org/Workdays/index.html

George on a FOP bridge he helped build

Chef Judy will be preparing sandwiches for our after-workday picnic.  The rest of the committee will be bringing "fixins" 

and desserts.  

I had a recipe all picked out but opted to purchase 

an Edward's Key Lime Pie, 

on-sale at our local Randall's.

I MIGHT bring Brisket AND Doc to the picnic.  

Peas in a pod.

It wouldn't be the first time I brought two of our dogs 

to an FOP after work-day picnic.

The Late Diva Joplin and Doc, the dapper gentleman.

An all-volunteer organization, 

FOP blazes nature trails, 

builds bridges among other structures, 

and maintains our parks.

Canyon Land Trail,
Lakeway, Texas

Nature shot,
Canyonlands

Baby Madrone,
Mt. Lakeway Trail

FOP bridge

Mt. Lakeway

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

Les Vendredis Francophones: Les Deux Amours...

Paris/Monte Carlo/Nice Sabbatical Study- Circa 1980

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/j039ai-deux-amours-i-have-two-loves.html

Love-a-bull Fun Walks

Fun Walk 2011
Donna, George, Joplin and Doc
Hike&Bike Trail,
Austin, Texas

Fun Walk, December 2014
George, Doc, and Brisket
City Hall,
Austin, Texas

Fun Walk July, 2015
George, Doc, and Brisket
Hike&Bike Trail,
Austin, Texas

Fun Walk, July 2015
Donna, Brisket, and Doc
Hike&Bike Trail,
Austin Texas

Fun Walk 2015,
Brisket and Doc
Hike&Bike Trail,
Austin, Texas

"The mission of Love-A-Bull is to promote responsible guardianship and improve the image and lives of pit bull type dogs through community support, education, advocacy, and rescue."

Petey, The Little Rascals

Let's Do Lunch!

...Just who are "White Saviors" anyway? 

We’re a mixture of many religious, political, and philosophical affiliations as well as personalities. We come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. We are acquainted with inequality, failure, heartbreak and loss. Our privilege protects us from systemic racism but not suffering.

We have the best of intentions. Yet blinded by our own self-righteousness, we can't even even find the shoes in which we should be walking. Segregated by virtue of affluence and culture, we rarely get out of our own ways much less comfort zones.

We are Accidental Tourists co-dependently enabling rather than slaying the beast once and for all. To truly break the cycle, we need to be seen and heard less if at all, humbling ourselves to listen, learn, and follow.

To truly empower we must let go.

Sondheim meets Disney
"Pretty Women, "Sweeney Todd

"Tough Love," Nikita Gill

All Things Venn

A blank page

Waiting to be

Enhanced or

Sullied by pigment

Infinitesimal

An explosion

On a serendipitous path

Seeking a cataclysmic collision

To become part of

If not one with

Other spheres

On their own journeys

Unique yet similar

Finding each other

In the dark of

Light

Organic visions

Uncompromised,

Intersecting in shades of

Harmonious color-

A canvas of

Infinite possibilities

"Color and Light,"

Sunday in the Park with George,

Stephen Sondheim