The Door

 I know, am very well aware this photo doesn't appear to match the story but in time it may. You see this restaurant has a beautiful, glass and chrome set of doors. One of many places a very special young lady and I passed through over the years. She knows who she is and so , of course for her, I will leave her name out.

This very nice young lady and I passed through The Waldorf with her cousin on Valentines day one year, and boy did we have fun. The Waldorf gave us the wrong room, with a bidet. Then giving us another room, three females trying to plug in hair dyers, curling irons, the lights went out, more than once. We had reservations at a restaurant, IL Cortile's on Mulberry St In Little Italy. Their door is made of Oak and Glass with their name adorning it in a fancy golden scroll. Oh we arrived in a black stretch limousine provided to us by the Waldorf since so many things were going wrong. Those doors, big, black and wide, opened by a well mannered chauffeur. After supper he stood outside, holding a sign with our name. Great memories.

We also loved SPQR-those doors, two huge and classy doors with combined wood, glass and also oak presented us with an over sized dining room, a baby grand shiny black piano and waiters at out every whim.

      There were the doors to the theater where we saw David Morse and sat so close I was dying to touch his hand, but my special young lady friend kind of reminded my about manners as her shoes nudged my leg. Doors, doors and more as we entered a hotel room at The Founders Inn , in Virginia Beach, dark polished, and solid wood greeted us as we entered a fancy but classy room. Too young too remember maybe, there were also the doors at PTL, Glass Elevator doors.

      A lifetime of doors to other worlds such as A Royal Caribbean cruise-twice. The New York Plaza hotel where Geraldo Rivera passed by with it's grand staircase and more doors. Of course we stayed at a small boutique hotel in New York where Tony Bennett Frequents and met a cat named Matilda. The Hotel was the Algonquin, a little small for us, but none the less, nice and we did get to meet Matilda as she lay on the reservation desk. Now those doors seem a bit more narrow, but still, good enough. We've stayed the Best Western Gregory in Brooklyn many times with it's shiny gold look elevator doors, and less I forget The Salty Dog. The doors at The Salty Dog are over sized  oak deep grained and paneled Fire house doors, with an average size entry door and then a hotel in Nebraska, and Ohio, and Tennessee and a wonderful hotel near Busch Gardens. It wasn't important if we went alone, with cousins, just that we went.

We passed through so many doors I've lost count, but it was the time spent that did count, and I've learned a lot about doors. It doesn't matter what the door is made of as long as love is passing through it and we all know loves comes in many forms. We also know the only door in life that counts is the one opened by those you love, so always keep it open. Yes there is as the song goes, The Door is Still Open to my heart. She has that kind of door to her heart. I am so proud to have shared those memories, those doors, with my daughter.

I love you.