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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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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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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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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…
