Let’s face it, you’re not going to have a perfect year and all of the things on your To Do list are not going to get done, and someone’s going to get hurt, and you’re going to wake up one morning and wonder what is it all about. This will happen in 2014. But there will also be love, profound love, joy, kisses, delicious food, hot showers, a child laughing and most of all music…
I spoke with my friend, Possum, this morning as he was on his way to brunch with his fiancé and his parents in the Big Apple. What I love about him is from the moment he was assigned to work for me back in the day, we knew we were kin. And this is what I love about him the most: “Rachel, you know what to do. You always know what to do.” This is…
..”be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. LIVE THE QUESTIONS NOW. Perhaps, you will gradually, without noticing, live along some distant day into the answer.”…
So as 2013 comes to a close, I’ve been receiving answers to some of my questions. The answers have come in the form of riddles sometimes, and my peace entering 2014 is to dwell in this uncertainty. I offer up the first question – what is love? “… sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” ~ Gabriel García Márquez Matters of love have stood on their head for me this year…
In the midst of my last existential crisis, my life coach asked what it was I truly wanted in life and I responded: to be self-actualized – and she then asked what would you like your work to be and I responded: to help others become self-actualized. Yesterday morning, December 25th, Christmas 2013, on a splendidly crisp winter’s day, I walked from the Spirit House to City Park listening on my iPod to Meryl Streep…
You know how it is when your head is hung low and you have that why me Lord thing going on about everything and then suddenly it gets all shaken up and next thing you know you’re walking down the street just laughing all the time and laughing at yourself and your crazy mixed up life. My friend told me on Monday – she said doesn’t it seem like when everything just gets so tangled…
A thousand years ago the Roosevelt was the only hotel that offered kosher catering and I wanted to get married to my first husband there but the cost was outrageous – back then. SO I got married in my brother’s backyard by his pool with my parents and aunt and uncle holding my dad’s tallit over our heads. Not too long later my brother got married in the Blue Room of the Roosevelt and had…
Last night, a friend and her daughter stopped in to bring their holiday baked goods as they have done every year for the last eight. It’s their family tradition – she bakes goodies from her great grandmother’s recipes. Delicious treats such as rosemary shortbread, cocoons, oatmeal cherry chocolate chip cookies and a jar of dukkah spice and all wrapped up in a beautiful bow. Ahhhhh, the holidays and my merry friends who come a calling.…