Waving to my neighbors as they breakfasted on their Juliet balcony on the edge of the gurgling Silvermine River, wearing comfortable robes and contentedly reading their newspapers at a beautifully set table, I remembered the main reason I love my home: the double balconies that run the length of my house and hang over the same river. ■ I couldn’t remember the last time I sat outside! As is the case with too many of us today, my life is in a state of Zerrissenheit, the German word meaning “torn-to-pieces-hood.” ■ This season’s roster of events and sponsorships started with a Design Salon held by Editorial Director D.J. Carey at the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan for top designers and manufacturers, events for Ring’s End and Deane, Inc., the Near & Far Aid breakfast and house tour featuring Million Dollar Decorator Mary McDonald, Bunny Williams’s Trade Secrets garden tour and a book signing for Cindy Rinfret’s new Greenwich Style, as well as a real estate symposium at Clarke in Norwalk. The Red Cross’s Red & White Ball with Design Chair Thom Filicia was followed in May by CTC&G’s Innovation in Design Awards at the Garden Pavilion in the Stamford Hilton, where we honored Jonathan Adler. Governor Dannel P. Malloy attended and said very complimentary things about our magazine and how he enjoyed having us in the State! Add to this the same number of events with CTC&G’s sister publications in New York and the Hamptons, and it’s easy to see why there has been no sitting around on balconies! ■ So today, I took my breakfast outside to the balcony, surrounded by the rustling trees and the rhythmic roar of the waterfall, and had a wonderful respite from Zerrissenheit. I heartily recommend you do the same.