"As told by Ginger..."

A: 23
S: Female
L: New York City
MS: Married to Andrew Flavin
Obsessions: avocado. grace. kindred spirits.

Jul 22, 2008 2:15pm

R.I.P Estelle Getty or “Sophia”, or “Ma”

Jul 22, 2008 11:39am

blue tooth anyone? (via betsy)

Jul 21, 2008 2:59pm

Hilarious e-mails from yo Momma

Jul 18, 2008 10:01am

“ Why is it that when we are in social settings I envision you making sudden movements resulting in disasters? Like, that waiter that walked by with the wine glasses - I could see you elbowing him…boom - glasses shattered on the floor. ” - my loving husband

Jul 17, 2008 11:51am

“ Joy cannot be disturbed by gain or loss ” - Yogi tea bag (only it said “bliss” - “joy” is way better)

Jul 17, 2008 6:48am

This is what the house finally looks like. (courtesy of Paul Kelley - thanks).

Jul 16, 2008 4:39pm

AMERICA!!!!

This was open on my screen when two people brought a candidate over to my desk…sweet life…

Jul 15, 2008 5:04pm

"The less you have the less you have to worry about" -Dave Bell (daddy)

There is no way I can give an accurate recap of my 2 weeks in poverty with a few paragraphs on this page - nor would anyone want to read my novel.

So, I have summed it up in 2 words: fulfilling and frustrating…now followed by the novel that I just said I wouldn’t write:

Let’s start with the latter because it is the most confusing for me, and might be for you as well. I started the first half of the trip as a leader of high school kids. They were awesome and I was both proud and impressed by their willingness to serve and work hard in 113 degrees of flaming heat (literally - garbage mounds were aflame everywhere in Tijuana). The frustrating part came with being a “leader”. I had no idea how hard it would be until the very first day when we are pouring our cement slab of a foundation and I heard little voices asking, “the area isn’t level - now what do we do”. Like I had a clue?! And by 2pm we hadn’t even gotten 1/2 way finished when most teams were nearly done - that was frustrating.

I was also frustrated the second week - don’t worry the feelings never passed - only reversed. Having gotten used to being in charge I moved on to a family group that was equally amazing yet very “leader heavy”…aka: I was no longer the jefe. However, it did teach me a lot about patience - and a lot about how this trip really was not “all about me” and neither is life…even though no one ever wants to admit that.

Lastly, I was frustrated at Mexico…and God I guess. How was it that I was born here, in the land of opportunities, yet all of the Mexicans of Tijuana were born there with the dirt and the garbage piles and no plumbing? This I will never know…where is reality? Is there a reality? Is the life of the yuppie reality? Is the life of a Mexican making $40 a month reality?

Marinate on that.

Now that I got the gory details out of the way…

Every time I go on this trip and come back I am always so content. It isn’t from the work I did at all - surprising? It is from what I learn from the lives the Mexicans lead. With barely any possessions (and always giving us the food they can manage to buy that day) they are the happiest people I ever come in contact with. I will stand by my dad with these thoughts: “the less you have the less you have to worry about”. That is so true…when our lives are inundated with ipods, cars, clothes, etc.- we are never satisfied. We always want more, the next best thing…and it gets out of control very quickly.

So how do I live like a Mexican while in NYC and working at a hedge fund?

Stay tuned.

Jul 15, 2008 3:35pm

“ When you love someone, you do not love them all the time in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet, this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity in freedom. The only real security is not owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. Once must accept the serenity of the winged life, ebb and flow, of intermittency. ” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (sent to me by Betsy Curtis, Love Guru)

Jun 26, 2008 4:06pm

Mexico 2k8

I will be here for the next 2 weeks (6/27-7/12) check it out!

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