Good morning, Mephisto!!!
Well, I certainly remember dinner parties from the sixties--my parents used to have them. Way too much bourbon being consumed--my mother always burned the broiled parmesan cheese toast, which was a last minute, closely timed recipe, and the house would fill with smoke. I always wondered why she didn't switch to parkerhouse rolls from the bakery or something. I guess hope springs eternal!! Everyone was blathering on about their latest status symbol, except for my parents, who rejected all that as bourgeois and talked pointedly about IDEAS instead. Not too many fond memories there!!!
I do think that when both people in a couple are working, it is harder to entertain. It is fun to plan a dinner party if that is the most labor intensive effort of your week with cookbooks spread out all over the table and a trip to a department store for a new look in table linens!!! That gets old really fast if you only have four or five hours left over after working and taking care of the essentials of family life. I also think that unless all four people in a two couples situation really enjoy each other, it is a strain to make small talk for several hours. With the limited time I have for friendships, the way we do it, with everyone having their own friends and doing very casual things together, seems to work better.
My stained glass piece is a pagan cathedral window, with a rounded rather than pointed top, about five feet tall and three feet wide, worshipping the sea and the sky at sunset. It is predominantly blue and green in the water part, and pinks and searing oranges in the sky. It has lots of jewels and glass blobs and crystals that will create rainbows in the room behind it. I hope to finish it this year!
What do you do that is artistic, Mephisto?? |
