Chance = Change

SO much to get done in the next few weeks, and FORGET CHRISTMAS!!! Our private little Chanukah was sweet, and each night a gift, as usual , from Paul in NYC ,each one sillier thant he last...the very last one on the 8th night, was a keychain with a little black-clothed rabbi, singing HAVA NA GILAH to the accompaniment of a kletzmer band!!! This is one I must keep! Paul has made an art of finding every possible Chanukah -related gift item and giving it to Peter and me: dishes of all sizes and shapes with menorah on them, entire tea sets with large Jewish stars, dancing and singing menorah, dreidels with stories to tell, rubber figures of Mr. Chanukah and pals, and on and on....I mean...potholders, towels, table cloths,et al...I envision a closet where he stores all these items he finds for years until he can wrap them up for the next Chanukah...God Bless Paul....who else buys these things? Anyway, each gift is a genuine delight, and, thank God, this year, SMALL, so we have nothing to pack, since already we are overwhelmed with boxes stacked everywhere in this small condo, as we prepare for NEW YORK CITY. Right now, as Peter finishes up the last several weeks of MODERN CHRISTMAS CAROL at Barter Theatre and I get my Associate Director office straightened up for Derek to take over, the project is to get the some 200 Holiday cards with address change info in them out to all our pals who may care. Peter made address labels (very spiffy red ones) for our entire list and for the return labels at the upper left corner of the envelope? He made labels starring our pups Sally (in a Chanukah crown of blue) and Cyrano (in a Santa Hat of red), featuring our NYC address for all to see. Therefore the envelopes look swell, and for a lot of the cards, we put a photo of Peter and me in the "frame" and those particular recipients will receive that photo of us happily embracing..a lovely thing, I must say...a product of the photo session we had in Kingsport with Kim Miller and Paul Bishop,wonderful photographers .

Labels: Barter to NYC 2004