Our NYC adventure continued as we visited Rockefeller Center to see the famous tree, check out a few stores, and warm up with hot chocolate at Bouchon Bakery. BEST hot chocolate EVER!
And then back to Brooklyn for a party and finally home again for a well earned rest.
We spent lots of time zipping around town on subways, so I thought I should take a picture to commemorate that experience. Here is a shot of a group of people waiting for a subway going the opposite direction from the subway we were waiting for. This is an oddly un-diverse group for New York. One of the many things to love about the city is that you are nearly always surrounded by people from all over the world, and if you eavesdrop just a little, you will hear languages you can't even identify being spoken all around you. I know there are plenty of dangerous places in New York, just as there are elsewhere, but for the most part, you can relax and enjoy the diversity, because the thing that seems to make it work is that people are just people, no matter what their background. How good it would be if the world could always work like that!
Christmas Day was spent mostly lounging around the house, but in the late afternoon we headed to Times Square. If it is THIS crowded on Christmas, I can’t begin to imagine what New Year’s Eve must be like!
We were able to stroll around a bit, and then we went to see Follies at the Marquis Theater. Nice way to end our stay. The next day we were on a plane loaded with families headed to FL to visit grandma and grandpa, bringing all their glorious assortment of germs along for the ride. Yep, now that we’re back, I have come down with my usual post-plane epizootic. Bah humbug!
Meanwhile, here I am all bundled up enjoying my hot chocolate. Well, that's a Photoshopped version of me. LOL.
And now that the 2012 New Year has begun, here are my thoughts on what the world needs now--with some significant help from a couple of Canadians, Robert Genn and Jack Layton.
During the past year, Canada's Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton died of cancer at the age of 61. In his final message Jack said, “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Robert Genn
This came from Robert Genn’s biweekly newsletter, in which he applied it to art. I would prefer to apply it to the world. The Canadians seem to conduct their lives according to these ideas, and live in a very large, largely peaceful country as a result. I know that life is not simple and that there are vast differences between the US and Canada in world perception and obligations, but still, I insist on believing--optimistically and hopefully, that every individual and every country, every politician and every world leader would do better to choose love over anger, hope over fear, and optimism over despair. THAT would be change we all could believe in.
Peace in your travels.
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