Anniversary

Celebrated our 42nd anniversary this week with a spectacular meal at Dragon Fly Neo-V (and no surprise that the meal was spectacular!). Below, Ann with her barbequed tofu



and me with a splendid risotto, with mushrooms and flowers and fried sea vegetable



and a closeup of the risotto



(for more about Dragon Fly, see http://neo-vevents.com/ -- we first ate there in the second week they were open, some dozen years ago, and it's truly a world-class place!)

As for the anniversary, we find ourselves vaguely astonished. Four decades? How is that possible? It seems just yesterday we were students and meeting casually as friends, before things began to change and deepen. And even more recently than yesterday when we arranged for a ceremony at the chapel at Columbia University. And drove across the country in a tiny Simca (until it died in South Dakota) to get to graduate school in Los Angeles. Many adventures and wondrous events, wonderful friends, and a daughter and son-in-law and now granddaughter later, plus satisfying careers and terrific travels (I've hit all the continents except Australia; Ann's yet to get to Africa and Australia). It's been a marvelous journey, and even more miraculous is that we're still delighted to be with each other. We are, indeed, blessed, and grateful to whomever or whatever arranges such things.