a reach towards enlightenment in 3 (new york) minutes. v-log deux!

I sat across from my father, an early Christmas stopover before heading West for work.

“This would never happen in Europe.  What is wrong with this country?”

He was speaking of course, of the atrocious massacre at Sandy Hook last week.  Its horror stunned the nation.  My father, having been born and spent a large portion of his life in Europe, was a man who barely watched television.  Never when we were growing up.  He adored art and culture and would have no idea who the Kardashians are, were someone to mention their name(s.)

He was right: this would never happen in Europe.  What is wrong with us?

I’ve never done anything like this before… and it may turn out to be the stupidest thing I’ve…

Saturday morning, I sat. Sleepy, sunny, with my usual yerba mate, to tend to email stuffs before heading out to a languid day of yoga and visiting holy people with friends.
(As you do.)
Thinking it was a good time to tend to digital housekeeping, I clicked the pop-up icon to download the new “Mavericks” system for my MacBook Air.

31 minutes to download.

Wait, wait, no noooooo. I didn’t think it would take that long

>Hyannisport. Mid-May, pre-season Cape Cod. The multi-million dollar home is a stone’s throw from the Kennedy Compound; its…