Reading tea leaves
I had a cup of tea earlier today and the label said “Beauty is in everything you do.” Today, after working in the hotel lobby with Ellen and all the other morning and daytime talk shows playing full blast on two flat screen TVs, I came back to feed Tin his bottle in the bathroom with the hot water running. Then late in the afternoon I ran to Babies R Us and bought a Peg Perego Stroller – on sale and got an additional 20% off because a seam was torn.
THEN THE WHOLE FAMILY WENT TO THE MALL.
It was a beautiful thing. We had Tin in the stroller, we walked, we looked, we bought Tin another article of clothing, we then went to the hotel lobby lounge next door and had a gin and tonic and then we came home and fed him again in the bathroom with the hot shower running.
All in all we all needed to get out. There is no sidewalk to walk outside. There is no park near by. The mall was the antidote to cabin fever and I do mean fever and so it was a beautiful thing.
At one point T looked in the vacuous eyes of the holiday shoppers and said that Americans are unhappy – I said you’re projecting – these people are very happy, it is only in Eastern Europe where you see so many unhappy people.
But Beauty and Happiness are relative right?