About a month ago in between a lovely Bar Mitzvah service for a friend's grandson in Dobbs Ferry and the evening reception in Hastings on the Hudson, Shelly and I visited with our son Jonathan and his lovely wife, Carrie at their apartment in the Greystone section of Yonkers, above five minutes from the reception.  Somehow the discussion turned to one of my fave topics -- followers of this weekly commentary must know that to be music.

It’s kind of wild to think about—early humans worked because they had to. If you didn’t grow it, build it, or catch it, you didn’t survive. Your labor was life. Today, most of us are far removed from the work that sustains us. Our food, clothes, and everyday essentials are made by hands we’ll never see, on farms, in factories, in different countries, and increasingly, with the help of machines and AI. The labor is still there. It’s just less visible.  

In our family 13 is a lucky number, as it is the date upon which my wife Joanne was born.  Throughout our relationship, everyone has always reinforced this reality by telling me how "lucky" I have been to be with her and, more than anyone else, I readily agree!

Rudyard Kipling, is his famous poem “If” got it right.“If” is the most consequential word in our language, and in our lives.

Follow up to a prior blog about Spring get-away inquiries, my wife and I landed on a long weekend out in Sag Harbor. This turned out to be our "baby moon"...did not know this was a thing until she found "bloggers" talking about on social media [blogging works!].  In any event, we've stopped through Sag Harbor several times in the past for lunch but never unwound to take in what this little town has to offer...and it is a lot! We enjoyed not only the various restaurants and cafes but the bookstores and art shops along Main Street.

Following in the footsteps and by the examples of our stellar Manhattan and LI Dinner groups, as I write my blog this evening, I am getting ready for a fun LI Womens meeting tomorrow.  

Both Nancy and Mitch wrote about AI this week. I just had to add my recent experience.   I was following up with two mediation clients, both of whom are highly successful professionals. At the previous session we had ended with a discussion as to whether one of them would rather take part of their equitable distribution in the form of a credit towards the value of a second apartment the parties owned or in the form of additional funds from a joint account.  

Another special show last week. Not a birthday show as was the case with John Fogerty the week before.  The Doobie Brothers - Walk This Road Release Event featured a new album release by this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member band (inducted in 2020).  It took place in a relatively small Venue, Irving Plaza.  Again accompanied by my daughter Marisa. We did not know what to expect.  A few cuts from the new album got teaser releases.