Paul Goldberg Blog

Los Angeles and Cat Sitting

What a marvelous opportunity for us to stay in James’ 19th floor loft apartment in the middle of Down Town LA with their two cats, Foo and Herschel. We enjoy cats, having lived with some over a period of more than 25 years, but we haven’t lived with any for the past 20 years and had gotten out of the ritual. These guys are 18 and 14, elderly gents in cat years, and mostly have their own territories and don’t require much from the human residents but fresh food and clean litter.

We immediately headed out for a walk finding that there was no way we were going to get into the Broad Gallery that day so we went into the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) where we got lost in the exhibit for a couple of hours. The first piece to capture me was

 I have been enamored of Miro’s work since I wrote a paper on him for a course at Brown. We walked back to the apartment through the Grand Central Market and enjoyed exploring the shops and restaurants as we walked. After feeding the cats and refreshing ourselves we set out for dinner having been told by James about a vegetarian restaurant nearby. It took some more wandering to find PTY where we sat outside under a heater and had a wonderful meal.

On Friday we started out with a walk to the Geffin at MOCA in Little Tokyo. The exhibit there is entirely Doug Aitken’s work. These are mostly large installations

The picture just does not do justice to the size, the person is on the screen, not standing in front of it and “100 yrs” is another piece altogether. After more than two hours we dragged ourselves out to get some lunch. This confluence of images caught my attention:
In a market in Little Tokyo I picked up some very nice Sashimi and Carol had her apple and we sat at a small table and enjoyed the Christmas shopping rush that surrounded us before heading to the apartment and getting ready for Shabbat with our family.
We have coasted through to today spending time with Yechiel, Miriam, Azriel and Avi. In a bit we will get together with niece Minda and her husband Will and Leo and Will’s family.