iPhones and joy

Today is Raphael's 60th birthday, and he has received an iPhone which is the gift from the gods, as far as I can see. He is so full of life again, it is as if he has found new meaning in all things! Actually, he has found how to do so many things on this new tooy, a tool toy is a tooy, he is like a kid discovering frogs and newts under rocks, and leaves. He keeps running to find the next thing to peek under. It is very fun to see this enthusiasm, and yet I am a little disturbed by how, when the house phone rings and it is one of his daughters, he says hang up and call me on my iPhone... Addictive? Seems very likely, but maybe it is like the toy robot with all the bells and whistles. You do tire of it eventually and the robot becomes a tool again.... We'll see. For now it is a party all day and at 60 how many people feel that way? Thank you Steve Jobs for all the merriment and joy you have brought into my dear husband's world.

2011 is ...

Here, for better or for worse. I realized today that I didn't write in this blog for all of 2010. not once! My mom fell and broke her hip on January 1st and the entire year was absorbed with my folks. Oh yes, I did also get a job and now work with some really interesting people, but somehow all 2010 was to me was mom and dad and their decline.
So, now 2011 is here, how will it define my life? Another year of doctors and nursing homes? Of taking charge of your parents worlds because they can't and not knowing if decisions are good or bad? Maybe 2011will be resolution year, when things end or begin in a new way that is less stressful. I know many baby boomers are sandwiched, but somehow that doesn't help. It is my parents not theirs, it is my life that is completely overtaken, and how to keep going when all you want to do is stop. so what is 2011 going to be? So far it has been white,and Italian,and aunt Sherrie, and mom,and papa turning 60 and Sara working and mich creating, and rachel expanding again. We will see what will define 2011 but right now it continues to contain hope- a nice change from 2010.