As a younger man, ailments were nothing more than ailments, something to see a doctor about and treated without much fanfare.   Closing in on 60 however seems to have created a more gloomy perspective.  

Sometimes sleep comes easy and sometimes not. This night I'm up writing this blog and it's in the wee hours of the AM. My mind keep running...clients...projects...relationships...  

The Gotham Film Festival featured some short films that featured some great short films that told some great stories. I get to see Fred Klein ooze some joy as the Film Festival becomes an Annual Gotham cultural event.  

Seventy years ago, George Horner was a prisoner in Theresienstadt, a concentration camp outside of Prague. He was a musician and played the music of Karel Svenk, another prisoner. They played cabaret pieces, the Theresienstadt March, and “How Come the Black Man Sits in the Back of the Car?” for other prisoners. By some historical accounts, music, and more specifically, the creation of music, kept them alive.  

Most people have heard about the Running Back Adrian Petersen's two year old son who was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend.  At least two different sports columnists wrote pieces decrying Petersen's personality and lifestyle choices for having multiple children with different mothers without being involved in their lives.  Both or these reporters were widely castigated for their "bad timing" and "lack of compassion".  

Part of what we hope Gotham does best is to provide a forum to build relationships from which we know great things follow. As a result, we are rolling out a new program for 2014, “The Gotham Touch”.  

I am writing this blog early as my husband and I will be in Europe for the two weeks before it is posted. I am so excited about this trip as I have never been in Europe before.

Give me a good biography, a Skinny Cow chocolate ice cream bar, a couch and a lamp and I am very happy.  Fiction is a struggle, and much of it, unfinished, is on my bookshelf.   Recently I have plowed through biographies of Hamilton, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Einstein, and now about to finish Steve Jobs.