Az men lebt, derlebt men.  If you’re alive, you’ve lived through, they say in Yiddish.  And we live through terrible things every day.  Today was a shooting at a bus stop that killed 2 people – maybe more will emerge.  And of course the fighting in the north is intensifying, and the fighting the south continues.  I anticipate much more lethal rockets from the north and intensification from the east.

But for tonight we’re having a dinner party.