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Tea

Getting ready to prepare myself yet another cup of lemon and honey black tea on this frigid afternoon, I reflected on the marvelous invention that is the electric kettle. It boils five cups of water in under three minutes and shuts off automatically when the water has reached a boil. For as long as I can remember living in a townhouse in Chesterfield Mews, I can recall the shrill sound of a kettle whistling belligerently while all of my family members sat in their rooms waiting for some one else to get it. "Mooomm the kettle is boiling!!" Inevitably, the whistling eventually faded to pitiful, breathy sighs and then, the kettles stopped producing sound at all. You see, tea has always been an institution in my house and any kettle that came into our kitchen was heartily plopped onto the stove approximately ten times a day, often to be forgotten. You can only imagine that this led to a few potentially dangerous incidents, which, when I think of them now, make me laugh.

Now we have an electric kettle.

Thanksgiving Photos

Thanksgiving Photos

Photos

My dad has uploaded some of his photos onto JPG Magazine's website. There is a link to one in the post below, where you can also click on his username to see some of his other pictures.

JPG: Abandoned

JPG: Abandoned

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Christmas Joy

This season, for my joy and amusement, I have expanded the dogs' seasonal wardrobes. Last year it was a blinking T-shirt and a red sweater. This Christmas....they have accessories! You'll notice how excited and over joyed they are in this video. The outfits seem to subdue them, but I don't let that stop me. Let the festivities begin!

Oliver and Family

...at Madline's 2nd Birthday

Paul, Oliver, Kat

Yesterday was Madline's 2nd birthday party. I met little Oliver, had a good meal, spent some quality time with family, and saw Andrew and Naomi's beautifully renovated Condo.

Finding Strength in Fragility

Two weeks ago Daniel and I went to see the Sydney Theater Company's poduction of Tennesse Williams's play, "A Streecar named desire." Cate Blanchett is co-artistic director of the company and starred as Blanche Dubois, a woman who is full of contradictions...to say the least. She is fragile yet strong, deluded yet quite aware of her faults. And despite any protestations people may give, most of us can relate to Blanche.

This article very astutely states that such an idiosyncratic character "acquires the stuff that is the universality of tragedy." Like most people, Blanche is complex which makes her eventual collapse incredibly sad.

I highly recommended reading this review. It's the best one I've found.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/theater/reviews/03streetcar.html?emc=eta1