Happy New Year from the whole crew!
NYC
Celebration
This is a photo of the front door of our building this morning. I think our neighbors are excited, for some reason. We stayed up to watch the big speech, in part because it was too hard to sleep with the excitement and the honking, shouting and other loud expressions of joy outside our apartment….
Rory’s Arrival
Image_34.jpg Originally uploaded by Pamela PC Rory Melvin was born at 10:15 pm on June 5th. He was 7 lbs and 2 oz. Mom and baby are healthy and doing well.
Beauty – And the Appreciation of It
My colleague Bill Brazell turned me on to this amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning piece from the Washington Post. It starts with a very simple premise — what would happen if a world-class violinist posed as a street musician in the D.C. Metro? — and manages to explore profound questions of beauty and priorities. The bit that…