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My dad was a DeadHead…
Well, kind of. I’m sure lots of kids about my age, and younger, were born to the crowds of people who followed the Grateful Dead around the country, creating a moving community of people unified by an organic style of music, and music-making. My dad never traipsed around the country, and, to my knowledge, never…
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Wedding Bells
I’ve been thinking a lot about weddings lately. Last Sunday, Tikvat Israel hosted the annual spring Cantor’s concert, this year titled “Under the Chuppah” The concert was amazing, with members of the community providing explanations of the various elements and traditions in a Jewish wedding. Over several weeks before the concert, the event was previewed…
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Tot Shabbat
Our Friday nights and Saturdays follow a rhythm that varies rarely. Most Friday nights we try to be home before sunset (an almost impossible challenge for us in winter, but achievable in the summer months). We have a nice meal together, in our dining room rather than our kitchen table. The meal is structured with…
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What a ride!
So, as promised, the second children’s book that we downloaded to review was: “Speeding Down the Spiral: An Artful Adventure” by Deborah Goodman Davis and illustrated by Sophy Naess. Verdict: we all loved it!! It’s 33 pages long, with some pages containing some complex and extended text, but our 5yo was engaged and excited about the pictures and…
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Big Brother Poetry…
We found two pieces of paper in S’s red folder (the folder that facilitates communication between home and school). Dad had read them already, and was upstairs doing the bedtime routine when I found them. I read these in the kitchen, while cleaning up the dinner dishes, and couldn’t stop laughing! S said from upstair,…
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Providing an anchor, an invisible rope
“…my eye beams a rope around her, because I will jump in—splash!—and rescue her the moment she’s in difficulty. And then she’s twelve years old, self-conscious in a modest navy sports swimsuit, …[but] she’s still the little girl in the pink-and-orange flowery swimming costume to me, and I still have my invisible rope around her…
