Happy Thanksgiving......

If I had to sum up the philosophy of this blog and of my life it is contained in this beautiful text that I got from our friend Buckley yesterday " Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Isn't that so true.
So this week was full of good things. Last night we discovered a fabulous, delicious Indian Restaurant in LA. We've been here for 3 years and it's taken all that time to find the perfect indian. We had a feast. It is called Chakra and is on Doheney. Apparently Michael Jackson had dinner there a couple of weeks before he died and apparently he often ordered take-away food from there. It was so good and our waiter was so knowledgeable and helpful. It made the evening even more enjoyable. Clare often tells this story about one of the wonderful pieces of advice her father gave her before he died. He was in the restaurant and wine business and he always told Clare to watch how people treat the people that are waiting on them, because you see the real them then. If you're on a date and just getting to know someone, they may well try extra hard to be charming and gracious to you to impress you but if they're rude or short or condes cending to your waiter then you should pay attention to that. I think that's good advice.
Something else I have learnt recently... I was listening to somebody talking about how they were scared about a certain situation in their life and so nervous about doing this particular thing and then Paul repeated this genius thing that he heard somewhere, that fear is 10 miles high and 10 miles wide but only one inch high, so you always just have to walk through it. You will see that it usually wasn't nearly as scary as you thought it was going to be. Paul went away last weekend to do this amazing four day course in Seattle, I'm not sure exactly what it was called or what they teach there but boy did he come back a different person. I think the essence of what they teach is that everything is just a thought, that you're not really scared or insecure, you just think you are, which makes perfect sense to me. So I am just going to think I'm happy, fulfilled and blessed, and you know what, I actually am.
So we spent Thanksgiving at The Peninsula Hotel and it was a perfect day.....perfect end to a perfect week.....HAPPY THANKSGIVING....