Wholesome week

Time to hit the refresh button.
This is my favourite tool:

http://www.ariseandshine.com/cleanse7.aspx

You can actually eat on this cleanse. Fruit smoothies, gazpacho, salads... Healthy stuff to stave off hunger and nourish while the Native American herbs in the cleansing pills draw out toxins from the organs. I find it also detoxes buried emotions and negative stuff that is usually medicated by caffeine, alcohol, vitamins, etc.
Good activities while detoxing:
Knitting (good zen practice to try to master a tunic sweater when I've only ever knit a scarf 5 years ago)
Reading- e2 a hilarious book about the ad biz. biography of Nancy Mitford, so very inspiring, what is it about English life in the 1880-1920's that is so enthralling. also started a book by JP Donleavy called Fairy Tale of NY (what kind of fairy tale starts with a guy finding a funeral home for his dead wife?)
Fighting with real estate agent about getting keys to new apartment in Brooklyn. Corcoran bad.
Setting up lunches and drinks for next week
Reading about careers as a foreign service officer. Ambassador sounds quite lovely.

Magic!

The key to a successful union?

I love airports. Yesterday I witnessed what I think was a first-time coffee date between a techie and his mail order Asian bride. She giggled nervously at his corny jokes one of which involved jelly beans and hitler. Then I realised she didn't understand a word he was saying. Which makes me think that they might actually be quite happy together.

I found this touching...

I've never been a big John Lennon fan but this humanized him for me... more so than "Imagine" etc.

James Brown a la Française!

Coming together

This group is brilliant. I went to a holiday talk/cocktail thing at Norwood the other day. Lauren Bush of FEED talked about her new plan to change the way children eat in American schools which is horrid and causes kids to get diabetes and be obese. Global nomads was there too and mentioned they are helping Pakistani kids skype with kids in middle America which I personally think will foster acceptance of different cultures and people seeing each other as other humans and not so different and will lead to less wars and violence. After the very inspiring little event, I practiced acceptance of different cultures by joining some very fun and brilliant Italians for dinner at Quinto Quarto ("Alora, now we go to the BEST Italian restaurant) and dancing at the place under Bagatelle and a nightcap at the Ear. An epically enjoyable evening which I spent the next day recovering from. Thank god for steam rooms, hot yoga and salsa. Yes, salsa is somehow a miraculous recovery food, try it, I swear. Like over a poached egg and toast for impromptu weekday brunch. Which I made for my friend Alexis and her Danish boyfriend while I stayed with her for a couple days (they basically had loud breakup sex the WHOLE time I was there) and which I might need again tomorrow because I have just been invited to a party for Anthony Haden Guest who is apparently "a famous art writer and drunk". He did a doc on eurotrash, sounds like a fun dude. I guess when I was moping about being sans boyfriend around the holidays I forgot that this is NYC :)

my favourite christmas song that my brother tries to prohibit me from playing every year