Park Avenue flipped the switch on its Christmas trees yesterday. Fifty blocks of trees - gorgeous!Made some holiday headway of my own over the weekend. Mailed 90% of my Christmas cards (and if past years are a gauge, I'll probably forget about the other 10%), festooned the apartment with lights around the windows and a fresh wreath, and watched both the 1938 and 1951 versions of A Christmas Carol. I also saw a colorized version of Miracle on 34th Street (1947), which doesn't count. I'll watch my own B&W version later.
Work has me slammed right now - too much to do in too short a time. A lot of what has to be done needs much Tender Loving Care, not to be rushed. I'm trying to live by the lessons of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, but I do find myself looking at the whole, impossible picture sometimes and just getting stuck in the overwhelmingness of it all. Ah, me!
Obviously, I need to spend more time lighting (and lightening) up. Maybe the lights on Park Avenue can teach me how.
Wonderful lights. My son and his fiancee are flying out to NY on Saturday for a week, looking forward to seeing the Rockefeller tree and skating - is that in Central Park?
ReplyDeleteSkating both at Rockefeller Center and in Central Park - so they have a choice. (I plan to do a little skating myself when daughter Kate gets to town.)
ReplyDeleteThe lights...now that's pretty cool. Skating? That's double cool. I haven't done that in YEARS Mary....and for a very good reason. I'd be a moving weapon out there on that ice...not pretty, not safe, not a good idea. Have fun Sonia...
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