September 17, 2020
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yup - with all our amateur abilities, Ezi and I - with the help from Michael Kagan - managed to pull of a pro evening last night.
Its SOOO important to give others the potential to feel good. and this time it made Me feel good too. The more people i can make happy, the happier i am. Even though the pile of work is growing on my desk. files of papers i'm supposed to be writing, or just finishing up with. will i use that time in closure to do any of it? could be. but today i'm getting a flu shot and doing a meeting for the IAWE board. and then dinner with kids. and tomorrow dinner with kids. everyone far away - 2 meters.
Okay, I'm now ready for the closure. I did my flu shot. i ordered food for next week, i said goodbye to some of the kids i wouldn't be seeing for another 3 weeks for sure, and i read all the rules for what can be and couldn't be done - and almost understood them. So SHANA TOVA to all of you - may this be a better and sweeter year.
September 18, 2020
here's the zoom reading of the other evening, the 16th of September. If you ignore the fact that the introduction had to be cut off, and we didn't know yet how to feature the reader reading, it's a great reading, and the discussion at the end is even better.
see?
September 18, 2020
this business of forgiveness is a big deal right now. I mean we're all behaving like animals to each other, concerned with our own lives, our own feelings, and we insult others without thinking. not seeing body movements or facial expressions makes things even worse. for those without possibilities of physical intimacy, it's even worse. your best friend becomes your mirror. My father-in-law at one point when he was bedridden, told me he grew a mustache so he could look like his father when he talked to the mirror.
We have already broken the rules. we stepped out of the 1000-meter limit, and went to the top of the hill by the frog pond, where you could see the silence of the city, a few cars careening down the highway with a sense of an emergency, but otherwise silence. a few couples walking, a few runners, a few lovers. that all.
September 20, 2020.
last day of the holiday that forbids celebrations. we'll see how it goes.
here's how it went. nada. blank. noone i know has the strength to do anything. except Barry, who is bringing me into the 21st century with this website.
that's not really true. i've been weeding out old pictures - and sending them to friends. it's even better than zoom to remember how many good times we've had together.
How time flies when you live in a plague
Each day is erased as soon as it's gone
And evening begins
With some form
of escape
distaste for the news
then what passes for comedy
in this world of chaos
September 21, 2020
some of my friends are sitting at home - going over their lives and regretting all kinds of missed events instead of celebrating those that occurred. Please don't do that. it's such a mistake unless you can now change things - connect with old friends and old enemies - for example. You can't be good if all you've got is regret.
the cat that swallowed the canary in the coalmine. that sentence has been in my mind all day. i don't know what to do with that line.
Remember last week I talked about the zodiac in the synagogue of Zippori? Today there is an article about the zodiacs