Chance = Change

...or at least ONE Guest Room, a deep, velvety royal purple....with a yummy creamy white ceiling....our aim: to create a soft, calming meditation sanctuary where Guests will be warmly welcome, and we can meditate and exercise when guests are not here....and now that it has all been scraped, sealed and primed, Peter and I are doing the painting this weekend!!! Our weekend of painting....I havet o smile, of course , because I am more than lousy at such things, having had absolutely no experience doing it, so Peter, who is good at practically everything, is doing most of the work...I am sitting,looking cute in my Janivoc Plaza painters hat(they gave us 2, with our purchases!) and pouring him iced tea as he rolls that ceiling into a clean fresh beauty! Tonight we prime (they call it "deep base prime", because we are painting with a dark color), the walls, and tomorrow, the walls will be a majestic yet comforting purple! I know I know, it sounds odd...but somehow I think it will look wonderful! Our plan is to keep it spare, yet lush, with Asian things in it, and deeply colored rugs, cushions, and covers....the astonishing Kwan Yin Peter gave me several years ago will sit sublimely against one wall. We will find the right rug. We may even put an interesting ceiling fan in pplace of the boring light fixture...create an intersting spot. Meanwhile, peter and I are cavorting through the weekend, talking, arguing, making up, sorting out and getting paint on each other in very interesting places! I do love this husband of mine.

Paul and Steve will come over and view our progress tomorrow morning, arms filled with warm bagels, no doubt, and hearts filled with love. Elyzabeth Wilder may dropby as well....we have not seen our talented young playwright in a while, and we need to catch up...Nancy T. will be by later in the day...Peter is putting together a DVD memorial of her late George T. for his family at Christmas...it is really coming together and looks and sounds so wonderful..Peter is great at that sort of compilation...extremely creative. Terrific use of George's favorite music, along with photos and clips of family histoy.

Extremely cold here in the city...very much Christmas in the air...we want a tree, but must clesr away a space for it! Somehow,we will!

Sent my darling Momma's Scholarship money on its way to promised use at CAP 21 yesterday. God Bless her.

Gotta go pretend to paint a room.

How is everyone out there doing, anyway? Let me hear.

xxev