I went to open the ark after Kol Nidre and I felt as if – even though everything about being in the synagogue, being by the ark, listening to the Hebrew prayers, and waiting for the rabbi to speak was as familiar as rain – I have changed even while all these familiar details have remained unchanged. We are blessed with this holiday, the Jewish New Year, the day of Atonement, an opportunity to fast…
One FREE rescue puppy. Free you say, yes, she’s free! $2,687.99 later – she’s had Demodex and a reaction to the meds for that so had to have alternate treatment, two UTI’s, and obedience training, and she isn’t even a year old yet. This is what you do for love. I love this little rascal but sheesh, let’s just hope the first year was not a preview of annual costs to raise a dog!
I went to see Sylvi Beaumont, Chiropractor, today the wonder woman of healing on Oak Street. She said my hip got dislodged from its socket, but my muscles have tightened and hardened so much around there that it can’t get back in. My homework is to walk on tip toes with my arms up around the house trying to rock my hip back in its cradle. Everyone and their mother recommended this chiropractor and I…
So I read that open letter to the ex wife and I have to say it sounds smug to me. He’s all hearts and flowers as he does his sit ups to meet someone new on Grindr and he’s very apologetic that he was such a free spirit. Puhlease. As someone else responded, “I’d like to see the open letter to the ex-kids.” The truth is that other people will come into each of their…
So my neighbor sees me hobbling around the corner walking Stella and says, “What happened?” I said I went to yoga and sprained my muscle. He said, “Sometimes it is good to hurt like that, because the next time it won’t hurt as much.” #lifeadvice
I’m growing dark – this is day 11 of my injury. Everything was full steam ahead – I had gone to have the massage that got my piriformis muscle back in alignment and had been walking Stella daily for 45 minutes to an hour and so I was so gunho I joined Swan River Yoga Studio and took my first yoga class in a while (maybe a year). I was back on track to health…
I stopped playing the lottery because I would get so disappointed when I didn’t win. And I’m not willing to live in a world of diminishing expectations in order to survive. Now though I’m beginning to think that in striking out for the sublime in order to get further away from the banal, I’ve missed an entire universe of interest. Take for example, today. I was driving Tin to Hebrew school and listening to gospel…
My days of late have been less than days of awe, but here we are in two of the highest holy days of people of Jewish faith – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and I had to take inventory. Of everything. I woke to my limp, after seriously messing up my piriformis muscle in a hip opener class after returning to yoga for the first time in a year. I went last Thursday and on…
How To Like It These are the first days of fall. The wind at evening smells of roads still to be traveled, while the sound of leaves blowing across the lawns is like an unsettled feeling in the blood, the desire to get in a car and just keep driving. A man and a dog descend their front steps. The dog says, Let’s go downtown and get crazy drunk. Let’s tip over all the trash…
I woke screaming in the middle of the night because the man I loved was with a statuesque blonde named Wayfair. Since Wayfair is one of the spam emails I get daily, I had to chuckle despite being a little disconcerted about the dream. Rodger Kamenetz says you have to look for other touch points in the dream, how was I feeling, behaving, who else was there? It’s not so much that things represent other…