“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

I had the best intentions when, at the beginning of this year, I said that I was aiming to write an essay a month for this blog.  Now, here we are, about to enter June and this is only essay number two.  I think it was John Lennon who said, and I paraphrase, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans.”  Well, we’ve certainly had our share of thwarted plans recently. 

Since mid-October 2023, we’ve been navigating an overwhelming amount of details required to a) sell our New York apartment and b) secure a commercial space in which to relocate Joel’s studio which had been housed in part of that apartment.  Because we now live in London, the time difference meant that for the last few weeks frantic calls and emails where whizzing back and forth until 11 at night, almost every day.