This past week has seen that subtle but wonderful shift in the light, the feel of the air on my face and the colors all around me that signifies the autumnal equinox has actually occurred. Today on the way home from church we noticed a tree beginning to change color. It is so incredible to me that the world works so perfectly. It is to me an evidence that there actually is an organization to all this. It just can't be random. As I sat at Evan's soccer practice on Tuesday after my run, the sky danced through the most beautiful sunset I've seen in a while. This picture shows the last faded vestiges of the incredible blaze of glory that I saw about 10 minutes earlier. Imagine this view except in living breathing pink, purple and orange pulsating across the entire sky in waves like liquid fire. More evidence that I simply should NOT go anywhere without a camera.

The equinox also is a signal to me that things really are settling down from the wild, wonderful abandon of summer. It is time to pull in a little, focus inward a bit and get ready for the total introspection and rest of winter. I love the rythmn of the seasons, can you tell?

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New York, New York

I wanna be a part of it-New York, New Yo-ork...Bah bah badada, bah bah badada, bah bah badada dum...
This past weekend, my dear friend Guinevere put together a sort of reunion weekend so that all her good friends who had never met could finally meet. So, it was not a re-union, it was a union. I guess. Anyway, it was delightful. I had met Jane, who used to be G's roomate and also finally got to meet Krissy, whose name I have known for many years. It was so nice to put names with faces and enjoy the fact that when you have a friend in common, it is a very good chance you will become friends yourselves. K and I hit it off and I hope I will be able to stay in touch with her. Jane is lovely and actually remembered me even though I think we've only met once. Guinevere and I haven't had the chance to spend that much time together in a while, so that was special.
New York was Fab! in two days I ate myself around the world at La Bottega (Italian brunch to die for), Le Pere Penard (wonderful down-to-earth French), HSF in Chinatown (Dim Sum-if you've never "done" dim sum, try it out), MarieBelle for Iced Hot Chocolate (mine had cardamom in it-and I thought chocolate really couldn't get any better) and then finally a little Vietnamese place in Chinatown (chicken curry that was so, so good). It was so much fun to drive around NY with natives who knew all the non-touristy places to go and could drive around without ever once looking at a map. We did try to get into Serendiptity, the famous dessert spot (check out the movie of the same name with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale-it is a cute love story), but it was crammed and our native guides were not interested in waiting 2 hours for a table. We concurred, so I bought the recipe book so I can try some of their more famous dishes. We did not get to see the temple or ground zero or anything really famous, but as I said, I liked walking around just feeling the vibe. We did go see Spamalot which was laugh-out-loud funny. We also got to see Lenny Kravitz's actual recording studio because K's hubby Dave is part of Lenny's production team. Way cool.

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Seminary and the computer lives!

Well, seminary is off to a pretty good start. I have 20 attending regularly. Brent tried for a couple of days then gave up. That broke my heart a little, but he may let me work with him on a home-study basis. That would be a good thing. The other good news is that my computer has come back to life. The geniuses at the Apple Genius Bar backed it up for me and saved most everything. Then I (gulp) wiped the hard drive clean and started from scratch. I have had to spend a lot of time rebuilding things. The worst thing I lost was my music library from itunes. I did NOT lose the music, just the database overlay. So, definitely not the end of the world, but it has been a little arduous reconstructing all my playlists. I started a new playlist while I was working in Itunes. It is for Jeff Lowry for him to listen to while he undergoes treatment for his cancer. He is so dear to me and I was so touched by the mix my pal Corinne gave me that I thought I'd try to pass that same feeling on to Jeff. Off to finish my lesson...4:30 comes early.

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