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For some reason things were a little whackey and I stopped even reading - but that was a mistake ( Read more... ) -
Some decades ago
in a political speech, A. Lincoln said, "we must disenthrall ourselves." I've always taken that to mean that we must separate our self-absorption with our place in the moment and examine the moment itself. And tonight I recieved the following in the mail from a truly beautiful woman in her mid-fifties, who spends her time developing grass-roots ( Read more... ) -
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At dinner the other night in Albuquerque with Geoff & Carissa and Anna and Colin & Vail there was a discussion about Keith Oberman on MSNBC - I'd never watched him - I do now - he's great. AND the idiot who runs NBC is trimming 750 Jobs primarily from MSNBC & CNBC and I fear that Keith Oberman's is going to be one of those jobs ( Read more... ) -
Headline: Soup not homeless!
Not for myself, mind you, but for Soup, I have settled upon a house presently owned by my former bookeeper, Michael, and eventualy to be owned by me. It is not in tony northeast Santa Fe near St. Johns, but in about-to-be very stylish southeast Santa Fe, not far from the Community College. There is an income producing apartment in the barn, and ( Read more... ) -
Who says there aren't real relationships.
In Monday's New York Times there was an exceptionally long obit for Ronald Hector who died at 66. Mr. Hector was the senior front desk feller at the Carlyle Hotel and in my Carlyle days I came to admire the calm and ease with which he delt with many difficult folk - including my boss and his family ( Read more... ) -
So much for being devastated
I was talking with the mother of my godchildren today about Brokeback Mountain and she pointed out to me that while she understands why I am fairly shattered by it, I have to remember that I am surrounded by the very best people with whom I have had the great good fortune to forge truly enriching relationships. She then suggested that "besides - ( Read more... ) -
Could it be my mood?
Dinner party last night with a former LA DA and his wife, a producer and his wife, an art director,and the wife of a former agent (big time) who is now on the UK staff of the Getty Museum.... the usual hollywood type suspects, in a really traditional Beverly Hills mansion type house. The conversation ranged from Gene McCarthy's death (everybody ( Read more... ) -
I don't find it surprising
that the two Fresian horses I met today, about 4, vertiable teenagers, geldings, calm and steady and smart, were way more interesting and engaging to me than the two French couples at dinner last night - even though they were smart and attractive and cultured (and the blond woman in one couple looked 24 and sounded 44, and either was an extremely ( Read more... ) -
Thank the Gods
for Denver and my friends in it all of whom I love more than words can say. -
Just in case we were
wondering about the condition of mankind in the English Speaking World these days, we might consider facts, as reported by the BBC today ( Read more... )