memories

memories

Have You Really Healed From September 11?

Lissa Rankin, September 10, 2011

September 11

When I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, I was in the backseat of a car as it drove by Ground Zero - a place I have never visited, in spite of the fact that I’ve been to New York ten times in the past year. I didn’t go there on purpose. It took me by surprise. With no warning, I burst into tears.

The ground was like a giant cavity, like a mouth with two big molars yanked out and bloody, red gums oozing underneath. I could smell the burning embers, taste the ash raining down on me, feel the terror.

The Summer of Love

Lissa Rankin, August 16, 2011

Lissa Rankin

I just returned to San Francisco after spending the summer with my mother and my daughter. Three generations of Rankin women spent five weeks at my mother’s Ohio lake house - swimming, Slip ‘n’ Sliding, coloring, reading, kayaking, tubing, eating watermelon off our chins, boating, making pottery, square-dancing, cruising around in golf carts, sculpting sandstone, licking ice cream, hiking, trolling through Amish country, riding rollercoasters, singing, sliding down flumes, and doing lots and lots of hugging.

Memorial Day Memories

Lissa Rankin, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day

For most of us, Memorial Day weekend means picnics, water sports, booze, friends and family, music, and an excuse to let loose before getting back to the grind on Tuesday. But for people like Julia, it’s a day of observance, of honoring those we have lost in war, of tears.

No More Stuff - Give Experiences Instead

Lissa Rankin, November 28, 2010

Give experiences

Buy this. 25% off. Spend that. Discount this. You need that. Buy 2, get 1 free. Free shipping today only. Expires tonight. Don’t miss out. Get more stuff. And more stuff. And even more extra-glittery brand new plastic stuff.

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I can’t stand it!

Celebrating Food and Family

Kimberly Wencl, June 24, 2010

dining table

I love that I now have the time and desire to read more. I just finished reading the book Spoon Fed written by Kim Severson, Food Editor at the New York Times.

Memories Are Energy. Take Off the Negative Charge.

Lakenda Wallace, June 9, 2010

Whether we love an object or despise it, we leave an energetic imprint behind that can affect how others feel about it. You know that unspecified feeling of “creepy” or “homey” that you attach to things for no apparent reason? Intuitively, we actually do know.