The Saturday Morning Post - Visiting Friends - Young and Old - New and Long

 We met up with a couple of friends in New York.  We would have made it three in three days, but the uncertainties of travel in a time of global pandemic changed plans.  Next time. 

Just because the photos loaded in that order, James is a younger and newer friend.  He is the son of one of Jay's close friends from University.  He is a musician and composer.  He moved to New York about 7 years ago.  A couple of years ago one of his works premiered at the Kennedy Center as part of a new American Opera program.  He met us for dinner one evening.  The theaters have been mostly closed for the past 18 months, unless plans change they will start to open back up in the next month or so.  He has stayed busy with teaching, mentoring, writing - he has a couple of projects in the works.  He is young, bright, and engaging.  He gives me hope for the next generation.  

We met up with Kent.  We have known Kent long enough, that we are all older friends. Kent was one of Jay's grad-school professors/advisors.  I first met him in North Carolina when he was still teaching.  Then in Athens, he was on sabbatical, he and his late wife showed us the highlights of Greece.  He is an amazing tour guide and a fearless driver. Then after he retired, Chicago, then San Francisco, and now New York.  Why so many moves in retirement, grandchildren.  He is very involved in the lives of his grandchildren.  I have only briefly met one of the three grandkids, lucky kids raised in a household of incredibly bright and well educated adults.  We visited the Frick Collection, a nice museum of mostly European works, then went down to One World Trade Center, went up to the observation level and had a nice lunch with an incredible view.  

It was fun.  Seeing people we enjoy, and seeing the city through the eyes of locals.  

Next time we will see someone who is a native of THE City.  When the time is right.