Friday, June 08, 2007
Give Us This Day...
...our daily workout! Peter and I have been doing these terrific morning walks,down along Riverside Park , going Uptown until we take a steep walk up a substantial little hill back to Broadway at around 116th Street, then walk back downtown, stop at a favorite Starbuck's for iced morning coffees, and continue on home, stopping to do errands when we need to....such a great way to start our day together....and as long as he is doing the highly remunerative consulting work he is doing for Inductis, in his home office, we can do this lovely morning walk together. Plus which, it's not only a time for getting our muscles warm and our breath going, but we get necessary talk done too, about what we need to do, together and separately, throughout the day. Useful time. And it feels so good.
All of a sudden, we are getting a nice unexpected visit from Peter's parents this weekend, and we are truly glad for it. We like these people who just happen to be Peter's parents, and too much time goes by in between visits. Especially since we seem to be unable to make it out to Michigan, thereby leaving the onus of the burden of visiting on them! They are dear and patient about it, but the truth is Peter and I need to get out to Michigan sometime this summer if we can....it's our turn! BUT meanwhile, since Pat and Chuck have been in the Boston area for the graduation from Harvard of a friend's child, they suddenly realized they were only two hours away from us, and decided to drive on down sometime tomorrow. They will start back to Michigan on Monday! So we are stocking up on Fresh Direct groceries to make sure we have provisions for the family time together! I do love these people. So it will be good, very good, to be with them.
Speaking of being with people I love: Paul, Steve and I spent the entire afternoon on Wednesday at the New York Botanical Gardens...June is Rose Month at the the NYBG, so we floated amidst a sumptuous display of roses, as far as our senses could smell....in this sweet special area, designed by a famed landscaper in 1916 or so, if you can think of a color (that is not in the green or blue family), then there were lush roses in full bloom representing that color...it was literally breath-taking, it was so very beautiful....vast dense stretches of sheer rose color.....oranges next to sheer yellows, next to whites, next to deep sharp pinks, next to romantic reds, next to tanslucent pink-whites, next to sherbet cream arpricots,next to deep goldens...I mean an array from what can only be thought of Rose Heaven...and the fragrances! Wow...the smells...probably my imagination, but I could swear the deep orange roses smelled like oranges! And the striped pinks like peppermints! It was a full-frontal sensory experience! And I say to all who read this, in the vicinity of that Garden: go see the roses~ you will be glad. A student of mine tells me that her Fordham campus across from the Gardens also has sumptuous roses, which is why they call that area the Rose Hill neighborhood of the Bronx! Now I know! And am glad for the first-hand experience.
So, today? The sun shines bright and hot....yet another brilliant student comes to call in the afternoon - (I am having the best time with this talented, funny bunch who are studying this summer) - I had a great audition for a Russian play yesterday....THE POWER OF DARKNESS to be done at the Mint Theater....it was just great to get such language from such a fun character into my mouth! Haven't done that in a while....and....I need to shower off the rigors of our morning walk...so, goodbye to all for now...more soon....
All of a sudden, we are getting a nice unexpected visit from Peter's parents this weekend, and we are truly glad for it. We like these people who just happen to be Peter's parents, and too much time goes by in between visits. Especially since we seem to be unable to make it out to Michigan, thereby leaving the onus of the burden of visiting on them! They are dear and patient about it, but the truth is Peter and I need to get out to Michigan sometime this summer if we can....it's our turn! BUT meanwhile, since Pat and Chuck have been in the Boston area for the graduation from Harvard of a friend's child, they suddenly realized they were only two hours away from us, and decided to drive on down sometime tomorrow. They will start back to Michigan on Monday! So we are stocking up on Fresh Direct groceries to make sure we have provisions for the family time together! I do love these people. So it will be good, very good, to be with them.
Speaking of being with people I love: Paul, Steve and I spent the entire afternoon on Wednesday at the New York Botanical Gardens...June is Rose Month at the the NYBG, so we floated amidst a sumptuous display of roses, as far as our senses could smell....in this sweet special area, designed by a famed landscaper in 1916 or so, if you can think of a color (that is not in the green or blue family), then there were lush roses in full bloom representing that color...it was literally breath-taking, it was so very beautiful....vast dense stretches of sheer rose color.....oranges next to sheer yellows, next to whites, next to deep sharp pinks, next to romantic reds, next to tanslucent pink-whites, next to sherbet cream arpricots,next to deep goldens...I mean an array from what can only be thought of Rose Heaven...and the fragrances! Wow...the smells...probably my imagination, but I could swear the deep orange roses smelled like oranges! And the striped pinks like peppermints! It was a full-frontal sensory experience! And I say to all who read this, in the vicinity of that Garden: go see the roses~ you will be glad. A student of mine tells me that her Fordham campus across from the Gardens also has sumptuous roses, which is why they call that area the Rose Hill neighborhood of the Bronx! Now I know! And am glad for the first-hand experience.
So, today? The sun shines bright and hot....yet another brilliant student comes to call in the afternoon - (I am having the best time with this talented, funny bunch who are studying this summer) - I had a great audition for a Russian play yesterday....THE POWER OF DARKNESS to be done at the Mint Theater....it was just great to get such language from such a fun character into my mouth! Haven't done that in a while....and....I need to shower off the rigors of our morning walk...so, goodbye to all for now...more soon....
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