http://adaylikethis.com Adventures in Gratitude Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:46:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_869" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=""A person can grow only as much as the horizon allows." — John Powell."][/caption] Yesterday, the girl I'm "mentoring" (which equivalates to hanging out with and listening to whenever I can find a few spare hours from work) told me that she'd had enough. She didn't know ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2012/01/18/winning-by-giving-up-the-fight/ Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. – Martin Luther King Jr. As children, we are taught to dream. We are encouraged to dream and praised for dreaming. We are told that the world and the heavens ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2012/01/16/work-in-progress-faith-and-oblivion/ Spring is coming and my dad is dying. The daffodils are blooming along the sides of the road and the trees are filled with white blossom. He sleeps most of the time now. The wind smells like dew on freshly sprung green grass. His hearing has started to fail. Next ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2011/03/07/avoiding-the-sadness/ Out of my window I can see the eucalyptus trees swaying in the wind. The leaves are rustling and the sunlight is falling in dappled rays. A smaller tree in front, with tortoise shell bark, has bright green leaves that turn a luminous yellow with the backlight. Everything is moving, ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2011/02/25/looking-up-at-trees/ On sunny days, my mum often used a phrase passed down by her own mother: "It's a sin to be indoors on a day like this." For my sister and I, this frequently used tagline was a signal to get out of the house and into the garden, or else. ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2011/02/15/its-a-sin-to-be-indoors-on-a-day-like-this/ For all the loud-mouthed cynics who've been running around with "print is dead" on their lips for the last few years — here's something for the believers to throw in your faces. And no doubt, L.A.'s new literary journal, with its 232 thick glossy pages, will make a nice dent. ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2010/07/01/print-lives-with-vengeance/ It began with an article posted on the Fox News website -- With Revolutionaries 'Looking On,' Teachers Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona -- and soon spiraled into a slugging match between the far, far left and the far, far right. Anything involving the SB 1070 law has ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2010/06/22/south-la-teacher-versus-fox-news/ At Trinity Elementary School in Southeast Los Angeles, a group of fifth-grade girls donning wide-brimmed hats sat down for a spot of afternoon tea. For many, it was their first tea party, but each one knew to place their napkins on their laps and keep their elbows off the table. They ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2010/02/26/high-tea-in-south-los-angeles/ Affectionately known to the locals as "Marijuana Man," he spends his days sitting on the grass verge along the Boardwalk. His friends - too - are cardholders; each one of them seeks relief in that centuries-old "wonder drug." Today, he has a few myths to debunk - from the equivalency ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2010/02/03/an-interview-with-marijuana-man-on-the-venice-boardwalk/ It's almost 6am, and the earliest I have ever boarded a bus in Los Angeles. The world outside is dark. Inside, we're all sleepy. The school girl is sleepy. The man with the headphones is sleepy. The people at the back of the bus, although I'm too tired to turn ... http://adaylikethis.com/index.php/2010/01/28/tales-from-a-bus-in-los-angeles-morning-has-broken/