A wonderful day Saturday in New York City amid snow falling and good companionship. Old friend Lenny Silverberg showed us around. We met first at the Rubin Museum on 17th where a showing of Jung's famous Red Book (his personal workbook for innner discovery just published by Norton) was on display. The Rubin specializes in what looks like religious art from the Far East. Then we packed our rain gear and headed up to the Metropolitan Museum, easily one of my favorite spots in the world. We saw the Robert Franks photography show, lots of fine Americana in several rooms, and then we headed for my all-time favorite galleries, the 19th-20th Century impressionist rooms, with Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Degas and the luminous pictures of Renoir. Wondrous! We then caught a subway downtown and got off at Canal for a trip to Lenny's favorite Hunan restaurant in Chinatown. We had terrific shrimp Szechuan, a duck with ginger dish, bean curd in great sauce, spicy noodles and a full table of delights. The best ever. M and I then headed back in the falling rain to Port Authority and the trip back up to New Jersey.  Not the easiest day for travel, but totally satisfying. Lenny presented me a copy of his new collaboration with Steve Kowit, called Crossing Borders, with his drawings and watercolors (refugees of various dimensions) and Steve's good poems. A great piece of work...Onward...One is grateful for the chance to be connected to wonders even in the midst of all the mire and chaos of the modern world.