The wedding yesterday
was beautiful! Traditional Jewish weddings are never dull, and this wedding
included a huge number of young people who made it incredibly lively. When our
daughters were married we encouraged them to invite many friends so that we
would capture that wonderful energy we old fogies simply cannnot provide. It
was heartwarming to celebrate with so many of our long-time friends, and we are
touched beyond words to have been included.
Today was too
beautiful a day to spend entirely indoors. Having a couple of errands to run in
the City, we went over to the Central Park Zoo. It’s a lovely little zoo that
we had visited for the first and only time last summer, but try as I might I
cannot find any reference to it in my past postings on Caring Bridge or here. It
is a beautifully landscaped park and a perfect place to go if you happen to be
around Fifth Avenue in the 60s on a nice day and have an hour or so without
anything to do.
Because it is a small
zoo, it seems to be quite popular with the toddler set. The zoo was full of
very young children, many with what appeared to be their Nannies. There was a
Nanny with a couple of young children standing not too far from us waiting to
watch the dolphin show. She had little patience with her rambunctious charges,
and all I could think was “is this what Sheryl Sandberg has in mind for the
next generation? This is the Upper East Side of Manhattan, an astronomically expensive
place to live. But even here, who are these nannies?” It sounds terrific to
talk about having nannies, but let’s be honest: such jobs are always going to
pay poorly, so will rarely attract the caliber of people we want spending long
hours with our young children day in and day out. Of course, Sheryl Sandberg
herself likely spends what to most of us would seem a small fortune on daycare
for her children, and that is a wonderful thing for her, her husband, and their
family. But I am not convinced it is a realistic goal for most of us mere
mortals.
Enough of Sheryl
Sandberg. I really do need to get off of this topic!
So I will share a
funny thought that I had after learning of the terrific results from my MRI
last week: I am usually a very neat person. Why did it take me so long to clean
up that garbage in my brain?
Have a great day!
Love,
Rebecca
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