K.Kays Day

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What a treat to connect with someone. As I get older I find it gets harder. People are busy. They have families and work. They have illnesses and issues. Then, every once in a while  there’s a connection made that’s light and easy.

I see this person at work. She’s one of my favorite on camera journalists, who at first, because of her beauty, incredible intelligence, with four or five languages under her skinny belt and sexy wavy blonde hair was threatening. Her features are delicate and to top it off she’s British with that accent that can melt stone. I thought she would be uppity, snobby, self-involved and cold. I’m ashamed of myself for pre-judging, and will admit (reluctantly because I feel stupid) jealousy. How can a slightly overweight (but doing ok), Jewish, New Yorker,  brunette, artist, not be jealous of someone like that? I ask you? Well, I was and I’m stupid.

Do you watch the BBC reports on public television? Or listen to Diane Reem on the public radio. It’s Katy Kay that I’m talking about. I love her. She comes on Meet the Press often these days, (for new readers I do the makeup for that show) and over the years I’ve gotten to know this lovely, down to earth person. She describes a vacation home in the country where in the summer she prefers playing with her kids in the creek, getting  all muddy, or hanging about the house painting or re-hanging doors and cleaning windows in her cottage in France (ok,that’s hard for most of us to imagine, but….) much more than doing the-inside-the-beltway-political-social-go-round. I know who wouldn’t love that?

But…anyway…it’s been a treat to get to know some of these crazily brilliant journalists and I love connecting with some of them. Today was particularly delightful with Katy, we laughed at what we didn’t know and agreed on what we did….special.