A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
Okay, except for copy editing, but that’s not hard. That’s when they go through and fix the grammar and so on. Also, the legal department has to make sure I have done anything that’s going to cause us all a lot of grief down the road. But my publisher has accepted my book and it’s off we go! Now the fun part: covers, page layout, etc. I bought myself these lilacs to celebrate. (Finney, the picture slut, insisted on getting in the shot.)
Original post lost! I don’t know where it went. Okay, I lied. I accidentally deleted it. I hope it wasn’t a good one. Cute cat picture, though. At least that wasn’t lost, THANK GOD.
We’re talking on Echo about whether or not we look like our mothers. The women are, I should say. This is my mother (and my step-father Jim). Everyone says we look alike, but aside from the coloring, I don’t see it so much. But I have to say, as I age, I’m starting to look like she did when she was older. I’m not sure how old she was in this picture, somewhere in her 40’s, I’m guessing. Anyway, she was pretty, I think! (She died when she was 66.)
I love this picture of Grace Church that they’re using on this concert flyer! It’s a lovely program. The Song for Athene was sung at the funeral for Princess Diana. It’s singularly beautiful, haunting and ethereal piece.
Last weekend, at this meditation retreat, the woman leading it said, “I don’t pray for anything anymore.” I was just astounded at the simple beauty of this. She was basically saying, there’s no way of knowing if what you pray for is going to end up being a good thing or a bad thing. She didn’t mean don’t strive for things, but don’t pin all your hopes on getting them, because maybe you will and it won’t be pretty. So live your life, try to get what you want, but focus on playing the cards you’re dealt, rather than getting the cards you think you want. I so instantly loved this I called out, “I’M NOT PRAYING FOR ANYTHING ANYMORE EITHER.”
Then the other night, I’m watching the TV show Criminal Minds and one of the characters quotes Arthur Rubinstein. “There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
It’s like the universe is trying to tell me I’m made the right call.