Funga Alafia, ashe ashe
(Welcome and peace to you. Let it be so.)

Assembly yesterday featured a great song by the Blue Room, simple lyrics above. And then we closed with our family anthem, “This Land Is Your Land.” Grace knew every word!

This beverage above is not only poorly advised from a marketing standpoint (Diet Coke with vitamins and minerals?), it’s also foul tasting. I like to think of myself as a Diet Coke connoisseur – 20 oz bottles of with-lime, and 12 oz cans of the regular stuff, nice and cold (in endless supply at PEP, which is enabling my addiction in a scary way).

Pouring rain today for my Mother Day. Took G to school, now headed to the gym (to see Kimberly for the first time in a month!) and then to meet an Exeter alum relations person … then CES assembly, playgroup lunch, a visit with Taylor and her new baby boy Phoenix, and dinner, bed, bath & beyond with the children.

A incongruous post indeed, as I close with these words that I really like:

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
– Mother Teresa

This picture of Grace’s was on a wall of the blue room titled “I Can…” – each child had drawn a picture with a caption “I can…” Grace’s: “I can fly with Peter Pan.”

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell

Glorious sunny day in New York. Slept fitfully last night, and woke up to run only to find my ipod crapping out after 2 miles. Alas, alas. Of course with no music and no mileage being tracked I had to stop (how’s that for determination?). Talk about needing outside validation. Pathetic!

Standing outside Lever House last night with a colleague, waiting for our car, I bumped into Tim walking home … moments like that make New York – and the world in general – feel small. Nice! Next visit I plan to see Alexandra and the children.

Seeing Leonora & Frank for brunch & bloodies this weekend, which will be great. Plus the CES auction which is always good for a rowdy evening.

In New York for two days, and found this picture on my cell phone. It just makes me laugh. This is a kid who knows how to pout.
On the subject of children, tonight I get to see Schuyler and her almost-one-year-old, Roscoe, tonight, and Missy and her bump! Babies all around.
Have I mentioned that I love my job??!!!