even without makeup...
My boys started school a couple of weeks ago. My son, 10, started the fifth grade, but one week into class his teacher called me and requested a meeting. He's ready for sixth grade, she said. He's so tall, he's mature, he already knows Everything Fifth Grade.
So I've been helping him make the transition from elementary to middle school. It's been a strange week. His little brother, 8, misses him terribly during the school day. They now attend different schools for the first time. What's best for one is heartache for the other. Why does life toss pillows with thorns? I'll never understand.
What's stranger, still, is the string of sling time adventures I've had over the past month and a half. I've been working on a big project, well two projects in a way, and I'm ready now to talk about them and the trail of stones and sunflowers they both laid down for my aching feet. Avon's all a part of it, of course. I don't understand how this happened, but some Avon Fairy waved a wand over my head and make me see the flow from customer to me to Avon to you, to everything unsettled and wonderful in its delicate want.
I'm getting close to posting a special edition of Beauty Dish Radio, in which my dear girlfriend Shanna and her Mullet Man boyfriend discuss life, my Turkish friend, Ulak, describes an adventure he undertook with Frankie the pig, my zen priest friend yacks about Enlightenment and Avon, and I tell you exactly what I've been doing with my "spare" time. Plus appearances by both 10 and 8, Ramses the African Grey parrot, and a telephone conversation I recorded with.... my mother. This show has been a while in the making. Somehow everything is changing cycle, circling me, pulling me closer to a mirror image I caught out of the corner of my eye when I was eight and funny and understood the patterns of life. Maybe that's just forty years sneaking up on me.
When will the show be posted? When will you find out what happened at that damn rodeo? What celebrity did Birdie "meet?" When will Birdie get her act together?
Awwww. Gawd I hope it's soon....
8:25:53 PM 
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