Memorial Day Weekend......

So this weekend was a holiday here in the States....and it also signified the official start of summer, which is hard to believe as really every day here feels like a sun filled summer holiday. But we do like to join in the festivities of our new adopted country although funnily enough whenever a whole bunch of us get together I usually look around and realise that most of them are Brits who either live here or are visiting. I like it that way. It's like living in a sunnier happier London really. So today being Memorial Day I gathered Miss Emma Parker-Bowles and Mr Paul Sculfor and we headed over to the Skybar at The Mondrian Hotel for a pool party hosted by the gorgeous and very funny Steve Shaw (pictured above), who is a great photographer, and all round great guy.
It was fantastic. There was a DJ and fantastic food and it was just a brilliant day. We saw so many friends including the handsome Matthew Rhys, our favourite Welshman, and our favourite Scotsman, the jaw droppingly handsome Gerard "Gerry" Butler. So we sat in the sun and talked to friends and looked around and felt very grateful for our life. Gratitude is one of the most important things in keeping me grounded and humble. I never ever ever take any of this for granted, or adopt an attitude of entitlement, and I will never forget that nothing means much at all unless you can share it with friends, help other people, give back......that's what life's about.
On our way back up the hill tonight Clare got a text from a good friend and she asked how they were and they replied......" to sum things up, I've been good, sad, happy, lonely, questioning my existence, grateful for my lot, ungrateful for everything, late night suicidal thoughts, early morning ecstatic thoughts, dying to find "the one" and at the same time so glad to be single....." and I realised that you go through all of that, and more, the highs and the lows, the weirdly opposite feelings and swings of emotions that make up a human being and that none of it's wrong, it just means we're still in the game, and still playing it for all we're worth and that's awesome. So wherever you are in that gamut of human emotions right now, you are not alone, and it will pass, the good and the bad......just keep hanging in there for another day......