Early December

December 7, “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy.”   And yet here we are, in another war - a slo-mo war, where the dead accumulate slowly, but just as surely.  We should all be screaming for its end.  The Army/Navy football game was yesterday - and as in this century, Navy won - but those players, those fans, those cheerleaders, those band members - many of them will go off to this war, to come back wounded psychologically or physically, or to not come back at all.  I curse Bush and his people who did this to us.

As for us, we have another lovely Sunday ahead.  We are so lucky.  Most Americans are so lucky.  (In some ways, this recession is about the end of our phenomenal luck.  American exceptionalism and all that.  This recession just shows us that we are in the muck with everyone else after all.  No free passes.)  We are headed to the City to take advantage of what it has to offer.  I will go to Carnegie Hall to see AINADAMAR, an opera about the last days of Frederica Garcia Lorca and Ken will go to the Minetta Lane Theater to see Garden of Earthly Delights, which as close as I can tell consists of naked bodies flying around.  We have the means and the inclination for experimentation.  My choice is centered around Blood Wedding, a play at my college in which I have become involved and which is written by Lorca.  In an amazing coincidence, in an earlier life, Midge was also involved in this play.  

We had a New Paltz Saturday.  Ken put in electrical outlet on the outside of the house and we rigged a wreath on the window with lights.  He also put a motion light by the garage which actually worked!  Talk about amazing.  We went over to Poughkeepsie and saw Cadillac Records, which was really good.  Both of us liked it, so it truly does have something for everyone.  Then over to the Vassar College neighborhood to Zorona's, a very fine Middle Eastern restaurant.  Yum yum.

Thanksgiving weekend, which seems so long ago now, was delightful.  Randy and Jen are wonderful and their kids - Lauren and Emily - are great.  I could go on with superlatives about them.  They remind us of another great pair of sisters in our lives - Kate and Sarah.  

All the best, dear readers.