JOYZZ TO THE WORLD

Merry Merry
We are in the final throes of the Christmas Holiday.
The frantic frenzy of fanatical shopping, visiting and dinning is about to take a well earned breath. The Dollar is declining and the prices are rising.
But New York continues its dynamic dance and balancing act.
I mourn the loss of the New York many living here now don't even know existed. Over 40 years of being a New Yorker and I don't feel the wonderful uniqueness that New York always offered. I see it trying hard to please and appease a monied element that is not the real engine of what drove the creativity and energized this town.
I still think it a tremendous place for cultural pursuit. However I find myself wandering the Holiday streets looking for the SPIRIT that USED to elevate your soul.
No such thing now. Just too many high rise speculation buildings for foreign investors and too few bastions of real NEW YORK being destroyed.
Sometimes I will look up and see a cospe of buildings that evoke what was and how the majesty of their soaring structure gave dignity and artistry to us on the ground and to the landscape. To see these hideous glass structures blaring some sort of LOOK AT ME architecture with little appealor reverence to design and art makes a native New Yorker GAG.
One hopes the pendulum will swing back to some normalcy. There was a sense of adult maturity and sophistication in this town. Now it seems that mindless sophomoric ethics, even in business, is the norm.
I will continue through the streets and try to find the places that inspire me as they used to.
I hope we all have a great 2008 and that the country and this city return to some sense of pride and reason.
Drink Up and Sing the Carols of the season. Enjoy your friends and family as they
are the stuff that enriches our lives.
And though cautious be brave and Know that this is stil a city of Dreams like no other.
HAPPY HOLIDAY
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