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Letting go of Christmas
I was never a very good Christian. The main problem was that I was always asking for logic and internal consistency. I couldn’t understand why a monotheistic faith had divided God into a Trinity, for one thing. And the Virgin birth? The Resurrection? The answer was always “You have to have Faith” and “It’s God’s…
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End of the holiday season…
This past week marked the end of a string of holidays/Holy Days, starting with Rosh HaShanah on September 24 (actually, starting earlier, with Selichot on September 20, for me, but for many observant Jews, the preparatory month of Elul before is part of the experience). Anyway, we finally wrapped it up, with the exuberant, music…
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I have OKCupid to thank…
For my daughter finding and marrying the man who suits her to a T. and apparently, the data of the OKCupid algorithms predicted their compatibility and bliss pretty well, as they scored around 95%, according to her. It’s a funny thing to see your daughter get married, and then to see her happily interacting with…
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Little things
Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow evening, and kicks off about a month of holidays and lots of cooking. No time for writing looks posts, but here’s a short reflection. We have a charging station in our garage for our electric cars. Yesterday, I found it like this: Notice the looped cord? This image makes me happier.…
