I've been traveling back and forth to Massachusetts for meetings over this past almost year and a half or more, since October of 2023 and on occasion before that, and as I've written in these pages before, I decided on one of my visits in October 2023 that I"d stay at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel because I have a long history of loving that hotel and going there with my Mother for tea because of the wonderful book, "The Trumpet Of The Swan" by E.B. White and the swan in that book who stays at the Ritz and sleeps in the bathtub.
The old Ritz-Carlton is now a different hotel, and the new one that I've been staying at is very different in many ways, but the feeling of care and well being that the staff provide in every moment are the same. As I've traveled back and forth over these now many months, I've come to look forward to certain things when I go there, and each time I go there is something new to enjoy and be delighted by.
On this most recent trip just this past week I was given a corner room, with a lovely view of the old John Hancock Building. The view was wonderful during the day, but at night it became even more special when I noticed that the blue light on the old John Hancock Building was blinking in a very beautiful way. I took a video of it, not knowing at the time that it has a very special meaning, and when I returned home and looked up the building to make sure I knew which one I'd been viewing, I found out that it is the old John Hancock building and that it is officially known as the Berkeley Building, and that what I'd been seeing is the weather beacon on top that changes colors and flashes according to the forecast. I also found this sweet rhyme:
"Steady Blue, Clear View. Flashing Blue, Clouds Due. Steady Red, Rain Ahead. Flashing Red, Snow Instead"
After all the years I'd lived in Massachusetts and all the history I have in Boston, I'd never known about this wonderful light and its story. It seems that the more I visit and stay at the Ritz-Carlton, my memories are becoming clearer as new ones are made. The view this past week was cloudy, and so the blue light was flashing and it caught my eye, giving me a new perspective and a new way to look at the skyline in a city I am learning to love even more as I return to it again.
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