Happy Thanksgiving!

I confess I feel nostalgic about this holiday. I used to love it when I lived in the States. A group of friends getting together with great food, conversation, walks and talks and togetherness. Of course each year was different since I did not have "family" as such there. I enjoy looking back over the many Thanksgivings and remembering each one's pros and cons. One year when Greg cooked his first turkey, the turkey was the other red meat!
I especially loved the ones I spent on Cape Cod! Local cranberries picked and used for the cranberry sauce and relish.
In any case this holiday is the least commercial and the most about being. Eating in good company and enjoying it. Hopefully!
However the Native Americans do not celebrate this holiday since it led to a massacre when they so kindly came to share their food with the starving pilgrims.

New arrival

Welcome Thomas Gordon born on Nov 11th 2007 in Devon to Eleanor Gordon!
Armistice Day as well so easy to remember.
Congratulations to Ele and Thomas, as well as Linda and Alex and Edwin, all of the Gordon clan!
I am looking forward to a picture soon!

Night mare

A recent night mare is still haunting me.
I am held hostage by a man in a hotel room on the 30th floor or higher.
He has a gun and holds it to my head. He says that the only way you can escape is by suicide, jumping to your death from the window basically.
I spend a long time looking down from the window in fear.
It is a dream that will not stop, seems to go on and on and I can not get out of it.
Suddenly Joel was there as well as a hostage.
The man, who now is called Udo Breger, has to go to the bathroom at the back of the hotel room and I see my chance. I go to the door but can not for my life open it. My limbs feel like lead.
We hear him in the bathroom and he comes out wearing some kind of sash partly over his head.
There is no escape but suicide or death by bullet.

Happy Birthday Ken and Ben!

Two Scorpios, one a very old friend from Cambridge, Mass. days and the other an old friend of Noah's from NYC days!
We had lost touch with them both but I talked to Ken over the weekend which was lovely! I hope we will reach Ben today!

Meret Oppenheim

Nobody gives you freedom-you have to take it! - MO

Photo by Nanda Lanfranco

Meret Oppenheim died today in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland.
Don't cry-work! - MO

First Snow

We have just had our first snow of the season. Is it early? I think so. We have had frost since October already and some very cold nights.
It is so beautiful when the land we know as one everchanging seasonal thing is suddenly covered by a blanket of snow. It reflects light and the contours are softened. The land looks like reclining bodies all over and the white sheep go in search for grass in all the white.

Desmond Tutu

Today Desmond Tutu has called for a worldwide abolishment of the death penalty!