Imagine....

In this post-election haze with thoughts of the future that lies before us in the Abbott Australia of the future I thought it fitting to do a post on our day spent in the West Village visiting and reflecting upon the possibilities that a truly good and peaceful man and his positive message can bring. On one of the few rainy days since we've been here we headed over to the Upper West Side to visit the Dakota building where John Lennon lived and the memorial to him across the road in Central Parks Strawberry Fields. We weren't the only ones of course but it was still quite special and moving to be in this place. In fact, the rainy, slightly less hectic day in the city on a Sunday seemed a fitting day to visit the two places. Imagine a world with more John Lennon's and fewer John Howard's (not to mention pesky Abbott's)... The West side is definitely a wealthy residential enclave (mmm....come to think of it this probably describes all of Manhattan to some degree). Quite streets with large towering beautiful brownstones complete with doormen (yes, they seemed to all be men) and shiny black cars with drivers waiting out the front. It's a bit freaky and surreal being amongst so much extreme wealth.