Homes in Woodstock have SPACE

I met a chap tucking into homemade chilli from Jose's iceream parlor, on the Wiodstock promenade.
"So you quit the ratrace did you?"I asked.
"Yes,"he replied between mouthfulls."Been here 10 years, left Long Island the North Fork to sell window sidings. Real
Estate is cheap and there is room to breathe. Never looked back, except for this time of year when I miss the ocean."
Almost happy but still not quite content, the human condition according to Ekhert.

" Cheer up, Chilli Charlie. See that daffodil, stare at it for ten minutes then tell me how you feel,"I said, unselfishly wanting to share the Ekhert Tolle fast guide to enlightenment with my Chilli Charlie Buddy.

Then my ride back to New York honked so how he fared in the end I will never know but hopefully he got at least a wee bitty enlightened. If not he could least have some solace that he almost beat the rat race, with a few extra breaths of pure air and an extra acre or two.

50 friends from New York,Philly and Brooklyn descended to Woodstock for Spring Festival

It was great to breathe the upstate air, see trees, be in a historic building. Whilst everyone partied, I dipped into Ekhert Tolle's new book, "New Earth". His aim is to help you awaken, detach from the ego and your attachment to things, (does this mean designer label must haves?) and stop be still and be PRESENT.

The first exercise is to look at a flower, by really looking at it you see it's essence which reminds you of your godlike essence and so the enlightenment process begins.

Everyone kept asking me why I was staring at the purple crocus and was I on something? If so, could they have some.
"Look at the flower, the answer to it all is right there,"I replied, quite proud of being on my way to enlightenment in just one extended glance.

Kenzie relaxes after a long day

It is great being an Auntie, as I have all the perks and sleep through the night unlike my poor sister, but with a noggin like this he is worth it. Nephews are the greatest! Don't grow too big too quickly please.

Ok so Mummy Sister is the Pro

She is so organized, she is the Super Mum and together they make the prefect pair. I love this photo of them, he even stopped crying. Ah well I will keep practising at home with my cuddly bears.

Ah,Mummy that is more like it,Mummy knows what I want by just looking at me.

Where is my mummy, I need her now!

Quite a demanding wee thing, just because I don't feed him. It sucks not being his favorite!

Here we are sort of bonding, he is sort of crying

But I know it is nothing to do with anything I said or did, naturally. I do my best to comfort him but even promises our hits have gone up substantially since his photos make little impression, it seems.

"I want to be the youngest ever SP blog star, and start a new Baby Blogger following" , said Kenzie, with an adorable smile.

He is only 7 weeks old but already he is into Facebook, Twitter and now the SP blog.
Technically he can not speak yet but Auntie and he have their own language and we both know this young chappie is destined for great things, the smallest of which is featuring right here on this post, his right by his royal birth!

I did have a word with Big Daddy in Glasgow and he agrees wee Kenzie, he calls him Kenzo, should be a family baby and shared between us all being the very first wee one of the SP clan.

Close up of my beloved nephew

When you stare in his eyes everything else disappears, he is totally mesmerizing. But he lives in London, I wonder how I can kidnap him to New York, I could hide him in my case but if my luggage went missing again for 5 days, I guess I would have a lot of explaining to do to my wee sis. Maybe she will rent him to me, so far I have still to prove my worth by doing something useful other than taking photos of him and blogging about him!

Wish me Mazeltov on the bris of my nephew

Kenzie Grey Noah Wolfson is so adorable, lucky Georgia, my wee sis, had the family baby to share between all three sisters.

We really bonded and I am already madly in love. It is great being an auntie, i haven't changed one nappie and do only the fun parts! Bonding, gurgling, staring into his eyes, holding him when I am allowed.

Once Mark's movie comes out and he is famous, he is driving this car around town.

$2000 a month will lease you this car, but where would you park it, it would probably be on the street for all of 5 minutes before it was gone. New Yorkers have to be practical.

The next gallery wasn't a gallery at all but a showroom for an electric car

In the next painting some couples were in cloud boats in evening attire, whilst the other lonely girls seemed to float eithero on their own cloud boats, suspended in space

Waving a red gloved hand and evening bag, saying "Hey what about me, I fancy being on the boat with him rather than stuck in the sky on my own."

Another blond girl at the bottom of the picture, looked like she wasn't leaving anything to chance and was heading over to the boat with the couple with every intention of leaping on board.

The lady on the boat has her arms spread out as if to say, "Don't even think about it, Lady, this chappie is all mine and I ain't sharing him so buzz off back to cyberspace or wherever it is you actually are. Now Shuu, shuu! Off with you!"

A couple having sex in public under a rotunda

was the optimistic piece of the day. This rotunda seems very hectic and a good place to hang out as anything can happen once you finally make it inside. Walk in, get naked, have sex, walk out. Is this how relationships are to flow? Keep it moving,no time to get attached.

Another sunny day in Nigeria

Sad news of a recent religious massacre over there, makes this photo quite chilling.

The next gallery was showing photos from a very trendy Nigerian artist

These three kids look ready to go to battle themselves if need be.

I was relieved to see in the next picture, the lady was dressed and had decided not to jump.

However, she looks totally fed up, with her arms crossed and her eyes blankly staring out.
What is on her mind? The thought of picking up and starting again or what's next in store for her. Either way she is forever immortalized as a fed up heroine, someone we can relate to ourselves when the chips are down.

This next gallery piece may look like a naked woman relaxing on her window sill

but if you take a second closer look,her expression looks positively glum.

"Mam, don't jump, he was probably a total jerk anyway," I said to the lady in the painting,"breathe some cool night air in, close your eyes and things will look better tomorrow morning. He wasn't a JDate was he?"

This lady looks like a terrorist bride but apparantly she is simply an Iranian lady

Who lives both in Iran and the States and she never feels quite at home in either place, so the gallery owner explained, when I complained that how come even terrorists are getting married but the Scottish Princess can't make it past one date,she apologized on behalf of the artist who had not intended to rub it in at all.

Given the recessionary troubled times

It was no surprise to see the photographs showed couples fighting and tearing their hair out. My thought was well at least they were a couple and had someone to fight with. I like to look on the bright side.