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Veterans Day, Observed
I had to work today – so I drove in to work, but, as it happened, I ended up listening to a New Yorker – Out Loud podcast: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/out-loud-reckoning-with-iraq.html From the website: “In the current issue of The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins writes about an ex-Marine seeking forgiveness from the family of the Iraqi civilians his unit killed.…
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Widening circles
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/65395158″ params=”show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such…
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Kid-centered shabbat
This week has been a little crazy, as I’ve been covering for a colleague, and taking care of an inpatient team at the hospital. Usually, this would be a two-week or a four-week rotation for me, but because I’m just covering until the next attending physician takes over, it’s only 9 days – last sunday…
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TGIF – Shabbat Shalom
Sunset viewed through a window in a stairwell in the hospital where I work. Shabbat shalom. (Explanations coming tomorrow)
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Sharing our culture
We have been bringing the kids to Dessie Restaurant in Wheaton, MD since the first week of their arrival in the US. We used to stop there at least once monthly, sometimes twice, but we suddenly realized that it had been months since we had been there. We don’t go out to eat all that…
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Rehearsal night
Tonight was my choir rehearsal night. It’s one of my two regular weekly activities that serve to restore my soul. The other is my voice lesson, so they’re both about singing. (That’s tomorrow). But today’s rehearsal was a little complicated. Dad left early this morning (really early!) to spend the day with our niece in…
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On tenterhooks…
I woke up this morning in a state of high anxiety. I launched Facebook, and the first thing I saw was a post from MoveOn.org saying “The day is finally here. How are you feeling? Go!” and the comments were exactly my feelings – about half of them hopeful, and the other half anxious and…
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Last day of the election season
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/map/calc.html#states=lrGmp5qGBlvGmqBlKp It’ll all be over tomorrow – I hope! The US will finally go to the polls, and sometime tomorrow night, we will finally know whether Barack Obama will stay in office for four more years, or we’ll have Mitt Romney in the White House, dismantling the health care reform that so resembles what he…
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Aaaaahhhh – feels so good!
I grew up swimming. It’s my favorite physical activity. I feel at home in the water. I took swim lessons every summer, in California, from the time I was about 6 years old. I tried out synchronized swimming (I still like to do that thing where you paddle your hands under the water at your…
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Love, love, love cross-cultural exchange!
Maybe it’s because I’m a “blended” person. But I really love hearing when two or more cultures come in contact/clash with each other, and the outcome is something greater. This weekend, my synagogue is celebrating the culture, history, craft, and, most importantly, the FOOD, of Turkey!! (check out the program here, and, if you’re in…
