"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace"
Amelia Earhart
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| From their website |
Still feeling exhausted from all the fun with India’s
bureaucracy, I headed to the Grand Central area to have dinner with my
Philosophy Friend and her “Person” (ala Grey’s Anatomy..I was told in recent
years that if we have at least one or two people who are true friends, we are
blessed. I am very blessed as I have
more than 2). It was an interesting,
mind-spinning dinner at Pershing
Square Café. I have been told that I am a great networker. Maybe I am, but don’t tell me I’m networking
til after the fact. If you put me in a
room and say: “Go Network”. I freeze. This dinner may turn into a piece of a new career? We’ll see!
One of my goals for the year, for life, is
peace. Peace of mind, peace of
soul. Thank God, I am beginning to have
that, on most days, anyway. Not to be
airy fairy, or new age crystally, Philosophy Class has truly helped. And, I find myself really enjoying meditation! It has helped calm, settle, and allow myself
to be truly open to all my new experiences.
I am grateful.
I joined one of my all-time favorite museums, The Frick.
Usually I just join one museum a year, and I just renewed my membership
for the MET. But there was a very
special Lady at the Frick. She came in October.
I went the Sunday after Thanksgiving to visit her but the line was
around the block. I decided to wait til
the city was “quiet” in January to go back.
Time flies, and before I knew it, the exhibit was about to close. The crowds had been unprecedented for this exhibit. The only way to visit Vermeer’s “The Girl with
The Pearl Earring” appeared to be to join.
So I did, and I was absolutely not disappointed. She is stunning. (I must digress a bit
again. I have surprised myself over the
years by how moved I get seeing certain pieces of art. When I had that first mid-life crisis and
joined Katie in Italy all those years ago, I cried when I saw The Pieta at the
Vatican, David at Accademia, Boticelli’s Venus at the Uffizi. Katie asked if I was going to cry for the
whole two weeks.)
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| An entrance to the Central Park Zoo |
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| From my perch @ the Plaza |
I then enjoyed a long glorious walk through my
Central Park ending at the Plaza, where I had a long leisurely glass of wine. It was there that I read an email from a Lady
at VDay.org asking me to help her by being Coordinator
of Volunteers for One Billion Rising
at the Manhattan Center on February 14.
My stars may be aligning?
Kristi and I enjoyed Bedlam Ensemble’s “The Tennessee
Williams Project” at the Gene Frankel Theatre.
A member of my Writing Group’s (and my new hairdresser) Daughter wrote
and directed this play which was a compilation of five Tennessee Williams’
plays. It was very good, and the costumes
were great.
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| From Yelp |
Following the play which was in NOHO (north of
Houston Street), I did something which I’ve been wanting to do for quite awhile. I poked around a restaurant supply store on
The Bowery. Fun, and picked up some throw
away serving pieces for an event the next night. Later that evening I joined my Philosophy
Friend and her special Friend for dinner and a movie. I thoroughly enjoyed my dinner at the Hi-life Restaurant and Lounge in my
neighborhood. (I think I had brunch
there many years ago with one of “my person’s” daughter.) We then jumped into a cab and crossed over to
the West side to see “Her” which I found quite disturbing.
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| "One Billion Rising" @ The Producer's Club |
Sunday evening my “Artivists” group for One Billion
Rising had a screening of the movie “One Billion Rising" at The Producer’s Club
in the Theatre District. (I love when I
find myself in spaces that I’ve been to before; so many small theatres around
the city.) Lovely evening with a lovely
group of people. I am getting excited
for Valentine’s Day.
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