Bye Bye 2016….Bring on 2017!

Here’s our traditional end of year newsletter again, for all our friends and relatives!

2016 seemed like a long year! It had many transformative events, both personally and nationally! The personal changes were all good…the national ones remain to be seen.

Robert completed a 3rd semester at The New School, and then took a semester off to digest the avalanche of information. Cathy continued to enjoy her job at The New School, and her consulting for Career Services at the Earth Institute (Columbia University).

Apart from being with good friends in Florida last Christmas (yes, we visited Hemingway’s home in Key West!), we managed two road trips - one to Camden, Maine and the other to Snug Harbor, Rhode Island, to visit wonderful friends. Robert even snuck in a 3 day visit to see a friend at Berklee College of Music in Boston and checked out the scene.

Unexpectedly, we got to see two Shakespeare plays this year - both by invitations from friends: "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Macbeth". Luckily we saw our yearly treat of the free "Symphony in the Park" concert (we were rained out last year), and we got to picnic to the music of Rossini, Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Cathy continues to enjoy swimming most mornings, while Robert does his daily 3 mile walk, and occasionally attends lectures at The Ethical Society.

We want to wish everybody a good year ahead. We're gearing up to resist any attacks on our democracy by The Rump.

Meet bad strength with good strength! (or in jazz parlance: “tune out the bad vibes”)

  Outside our building in Greystone Ave, Riverdale, Bronx (USA)

Our 2016 year in images:

  January - The gorgeous sea & sand of Florida January - Robert in the Butterfly Conservatory, Key West

  May - Robert’s “New School Ensemble” June - At “Symphony in the Park”

September - Cathy prepares to plant a flower September - At the UN “Global Citizenship Seminar”