Life Needs Joy

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In this time of craziness, I find solace in spending an afternoon with Glo. We saw Frozen on Broadway—fabulous, but much darker than the movie, which I guess is what made it wonderful. I had dinner at my daughter’s. A healthy and textually complex meal. I don’t post pictures of my granddaughter so you will have to use your imagination—she is brilliant, a great critic of visual media and stage, and beautiful inside and out. I hope that we pass through this nightmare of Trump politics so that she will grow old in a world that is better than this one.

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