Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

Last week I found myself in St. Martin (the island so nice they named it after me), doing not much more than watching one gorgeous Caribbean sunset after another, immersing myself in the turquoise sea, and reapplying sunblock. Entirely "luxe, calme et volupté"(it's always a good day when I can quote Baudelaire), and no email. Perfect.
A highlight was reading the international edition of the Miami Herald while overlooking that selfsame sea at breakfast and learning that our client Herbie Hancock had earned a well-deserved but surprising Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for the extraordinary 'River: The Joni Letters.'
Herbie is the master of beautiful stillness. I dialed 'River' up on my iPod and let the music greet the sound of the waves.
I was a long way from Brooklyn.