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But, I blog – is that like doodling?

August 20, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20)   There’s a vibrant cloud of creativity in the air right now, and it is intoxicating you! Take advantage of this inspiring energy, and use it to stimulate your day. Take a trip to a museum or an arts-and-crafts store, or just pick up a pack of crayons at the supermarket. Do whatever you need to in order to let your juices flow. Even if you just doodle on a notepad…

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The digital world

We keep thinking that Tin is in the digital world because he Skypes with family and he watches YouTube with us, but honestly he is not. I have seen kids his age playing iPhones and iPads as if it was second nature. Yesterday, after learning that preparation for gifted testing means he should be playing video games about logic (not sure I am really on board with this) I let him use my computer and…

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Saints Slumber

Finally on day three Tin fell asleep – like one minute ago – I didn’t notice it at first because instead of the sounds of Oh When The Saints Go Marchin In a la Jewel Brown suddenly there was silence, sweet wonderful silence. It almost made my heart stop since Tin hasn’t napped since T left Thursday morning and I haven’t had a good night’s sleep to equip me for any of this. Toddlers are…

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Learning about Tin

Tin and I have spent every waking hour together for the past 48 plus hours. He is communicating so much better than even a week ago, but he has returned to the frequent use of no for just about every response. Do you want breakfast, no I don’t want breakfast. Do you want to go to the park, no I don’t want to go to the park. As I write this he is learning how…

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When my father was god

About 5am this morning, I lit my dad’s yahrzeit candle. Twenty-six years since his death and coincidentally the yahrzeit candles burn 26 hours. The custom of lighting a yahrzeit candle comes from the Book of Proverbs 20:27 “The soul of man is a candle of the Lord.” This custom of lighting a yahrzeit for the deceased is very widespread and deeply ingrained in Jewish life. Many Jews who are otherwise unobservant follow this custom. So I took a…

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It’s in the air

In the 70’s Jimmy Carter said we were in a malaise and so I was trying to think of the word for where we are now and I have to say we are in TRANSITION. The entire globe is going through a check list of what they believe in and what they support (either through apathy or engagement) and everyone I know is questioning the standard responses. So it is that today I spoke to…

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A wise son

In Franklinton, in someone’s yard, is a marquis that says: A wise son heareth his father’s instruction. Was dad being maybe a touch melodramatic? As tomorrow approaches and I contemplate my father’s own passing and my own parenthood in general, I am wondering if anyone who chooses to be a parent ever really knows what they are doing. Yesterday, after spending the day where my mother comes from, around her people, meeting a man who…

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