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Norm Reisman's avatar

It’s also Valentines Day. Here’s a ❤️. Focus on the good stuff.

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Nelsonsdad's avatar

Having grown up in Tenafly, it pains me to live so far away from Teaneck...477 miles, 7 hours 24 minutes away, in Central Virginia (which turns out to be not nearly as central as I wish....)

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Jessica de Koninck's avatar

Wish you could beam in

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Danny Bobrow's avatar

Such a warm written heartfelt glimpse of past and present

Thank you

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Norma B.'s avatar

Your essays always seem to reflect my current state of mind--thank you for writing! In need of beauty and reassurance, yesterday I visited galleries in Chelsea and of course spent time at the Whitney. Not sure how to explain that feeling that overwhelms me when immersed in art, but somehow I know we'll be okay!

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Jane Tainow Feder's avatar

Jessica, as so often happens when I read your writing, I am so moved. I wish I had seen your apt with the Matisse walls. I can envision it, and I love it! I feel your fear. Lately, I walk with trembling knees. Your final sentence raises even more fear. I appreciate your work.

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Jessica de Koninck's avatar

Thanks Jane

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Martha Gershun's avatar

This was so beautiful. Thank you.

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Roni Fuller's avatar

I wish I could be at the ALTE exhibit this month, but confined as I am, an 86-year-old widower, I will not be there. I am fortunate to live in Ithaca with one of my children, with my five grandchildren close, anticipating as well the April arrival (B'ezrat Hashem) of a great-grandson. That said (or written), I greatly appreciate reminders of beauty. We need desperately to remember that "beauty exists in the world even when the worst things imaginable are happening," as they surely are at present. I was privileged to see the 1992 MOMA Matisse exhibit. Another trip to MOMA was what I still consider the best exhibit I have ever seen, the 1998 Pollack exhibit which included a facsimile of his workroom. Thanks for this inspiring entry into the ALTE archives.

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Jessica de Koninck's avatar

Thanks so much & Mazel Tov!

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Beryl Goldberg's avatar

Any public transit to the puffin center for this no car owning not driving New Yorker

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Esther Cohen's avatar

There's a frequent short bus ride from Port Authority right to Puffin Way in Teaneck. I take it all the time

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Kirsten Miles's avatar

Lovely, the memory, the Matisse, the story.

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Jessica de Koninck's avatar

Thank you, Kirsten.

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