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Oct 13, 2012, Broadway Cares and Remembering my Parents 2012



October is actually my most favorite month on the North East coast of America. There's something other-worldly about the light and of course the colors of the leaves is stunning - to see a whole vista in it's autumnal glory takes one's breath away. Stimulates feelings of wanting to be good and holy - like listening to sublime music.

The 21st marked my father's birthday - if he'd lived, he would have been a hundred. I know if he were to suddenly come back, he'd be intrigued by how the world is and how his children live.

At the end of last month I conducted an auction in the middle of Times Square for Broadway Cares - it fetched $388,000. I've done a few other auctions recently - seems like the gavel is back in my hand quite regularly. Early this month, I went to a gathering of former Sotheby's employees - the Broken Gavel Club - it was incredible to see some fellow workers I hadn't seen for over twenty years, some looked exactly the same, others I didn't recognize. Thank goodness we all wore name tags.

Feel a bit sick about the election - Romney is really gaining momentum, can't stand it!!!

Recently, as I was about to leave the house, I was by the front door and I caught a glimpse of myself in my rather large bedroom mirror, I was shocked. Standing right there was my mother looking back at me. I looked exactly like her - not sort of like her but exactly. I walked closer to get a better look and I just couldn't believe it. I was going to a meeting where I needed to wear a skirt and I had on flats and a short raincoat, which is how she would have dressed, and my hair was up.

It's strange, my sister looks like our mother too but my mother when she was younger and I look like her when she was older. And yet my sister and I look nothing alike, or so it seems.

 

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