{"id":121,"date":"2009-06-30T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T23:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/your-kindness-michael-jackson-a-book-party-at-pure-food-and-wine.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T23:18:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T23:18:34","slug":"your-kindness-michael-jackson-a-book-party-at-pure-food-and-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/your-kindness-michael-jackson-a-book-party-at-pure-food-and-wine.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Kindness, Michael Jackson, & a Book Party at Pure Food and Wine…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a jam-packed day. Sometimes I think the best way to write this blog called “Your Charmed Life” is just to share about my charmed life. First: thanks to everyone who posted comments or wrote to me with condolences about the death of my glorious dog, Aspen. Your kindness means so much, and I passed your lovely thoughts on to my daughter who’s missing Aspen terribly, too. (She’s also sending me dog pictures from Petfinder.com<\/a>. They have over 300,000 dogs and cats who need homes. I’m grateful that in the fall when I’m not traveling so much I can help one.)<\/p>\n

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\"Monica<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a wonderful new assistant, Monica, shown here with me at the Love-Powered Diet<\/a><\/span> launch at the Peter Max Studio in late May. Today we went up to 125th Street with the intention of doing a video-blog around the Michael Jackson tribute at the Apollo Theater. A camera malfunction kept me from being able to post that (if the problem gets solved, I’ll post it later in the week), but I’m so glad we went. There were thousands and thousands of people and so much love. I believe that love from here helps people make their way on the other side. Michael should make his way just fine.<\/div>\n
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And tonight we were both at the luxurious raw-food restaurant Pure Food and Wine<\/a>\u00a0for another<\/div>\n

\"Living<\/span><\/p>\n

book launch, this one for Sarma Melngailis’s new book, Living Raw Food: Get the Glow with More Organic Recipes from Pure Food and Wine.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>The book, brand new today from HarperCollins, is chock-full of delicious, enlivening recipes for extraordinary dishes that don’t require an oven or stove. Tonight at the party, I kept hearing people say “This is amazing!” with every taste of another yummy hors d’oeuvres. That’s the thing with raw food when it’s done right: it’s not just tasty: it’s extraordinary, other-worldly almost. And this book contains not only scores of fabulous recipes but a great deal of solid info on the living-food lifestyle.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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And I had the rare NYC treat of getting a ride home in a friend’s car. We don’t tend to have cars in New York, but Kendra Coppey of Barefoot Tiger<\/a>, in-home personal training, yoga, and nutrition, has one of those adorable little\u00a0Smart Cars<\/span><\/a>. She’s my neighbor and offered me a ride. I’d never been in one of these tiny cars before. It was surprisingly roomy in the front seat (there is no back seat) and when she parked in a space that didn’t look big enough for a respectable bicycle, I was duly impressed.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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My conclusion: life is far from perfect but it sure is good.<\/div>\n
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Follow Victoria on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and subscribe to her weekly newsletter, “The Charmed Monday Minute” at VictoriaMoran.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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