According to Robin Williams's widow, he suffered Lewey body dementia and he took his life to avoid having to live with the progressively worsening symptoms of the disease. These symptoms include hallucinations, often of animals and children, according to an article in the New York Times this week.   The early stages of the disease, when a person has insight into what is happening, is considered the time of the greatest risk of suicide.  

For the first time since 1994, Central Park and LaGuardia have reached at least 70° four consecutive days in the month of November so let's get serious for a minute...   Exxon Mobil is being investigated by the New York attorney general’s office to determine whether the company lied to consumers about climate change risks or lied to investors about how those risks could affect its oil business.  

After 18 years of existence I venture to say that our Gotham Tribe is pretty amazing!Our unique giving culture has resulted in countless fruitful and sometimes miraculous results.  Having said that, there is one draw back: We are sometimes too humble and we keep the good deeds between ourselves and the involved parties.  In my opinion what we need is more (nurturing) feedback so we can all enjoy and benefit from the positive psychic compensation. 

For quite a while, I had fantasized about writing this blog. It would have been after a Game Six or Game Seven clinching of the World Series by the Mets. But that, as it turned out, was a fantasy. The “would have been” did not materialize.

We seem to have sold our wonderful cabin retreat and have spent last week end and will spend next week end prepping it for the new buyers. To close on Nov. 14. Fall is definitely a time of letting go, and there is a bittersweetness to letting go of something that was once so dear. Shakespeare says it much better than me:

What a surprise – I am writing about food.  

 

At dinner with my son Max the other night he brought up the subject of my blogs. One day he said, he is going to sit down and read them all. Otherwise, he said, he may not read them until after I am dead and then I won't be around for him to discuss them with me. A fair thought.