The country is evolving
The President of the United States pressed to repeal the 17-year-old Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and now the Vice President of the United States has said that he expects Gay Marriage is inevitable.
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Mariah Carey Jew Wish
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS… JEWS I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is… Jews I wont ask for much this Christmas I dont even wish for snow Just want a Jew who runs show business Speilberg, Stiller Ari Gold I will make a list and send it Of my choices for St. Nick Seinfeld, Zach Braff and…
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Reach out and touch someone
I sent a text message to my friend who has lost a lot of her family over the last 18 months – two aunts, a mother and a nephew – and told her I was thinking of my mom and knew she must be too. She wrote back that it’s hard hard hard and sad too. If you know someone who has lost someone they love, even though Christmas might not be meaningful to you,…
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People there just when you need them
I called in my anti anxiety pill prescription today – these are my when I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get the thought wheel to stop pills – I take half and go back to nighty night and thoughtless sleep. The woman at the drugstore said someone here says she’ll bring them to you. “Uh, okay,” I said. A half hour later a friend pulled up and handed me my…
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Sign sign everywhere a sign
The signer is back in City Park putting wooden signs by the dog shit that owners leave behind. For Thanksgiving the message was, “Have a Crappy Thankgsiving!” and for Christmas we have, “Merry White Trash Christmas!” – sometimes the signs are dark like the one that said, “Your Owner is a Loser” or “Thanks For Leaving Your Shit” but mostly they are quite humorous and seasonal in their message. What is the thing about people…
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Nonattachment reprise
When I was walking through the park this morning on this chilly December morning bearing some resemblance to winter, I thought to myself, maybe I keep losing all these things because I’m being tested about my nonattachment endorsements. I lost all my favorite clothes and vintage Wonder Woman shirts in Croatia because…, I lost all my 8900 Ipod songs (recovered most now) because…, I lost all the pottery I bought at Pepperwood Pottery after years…
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Gold(a) knows
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism. -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978). Um excuse me while I divagate but on the subject of gold and China buying it – China has since the beginning of the 2000s started to stock pile gold and to trade with Russia in its…
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Creating traditions
I have many traditions that I honor even though I am more secular Jew than not – I light the menorah every night of Hanukkah, I eat matzo during Passover, I fast for Yom Kippur, and eat honey and apples on Rosh Hashanah. I have given up needing turkey on Thanksgiving and pretty much the need to cook most of the meal. I just like to gather with loved ones and feast. For my mother’s…
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Slogging it out
T square is enroute home having jumped through the last hurdle – the flight from Atlanta to New Orleans – and so in a little bit over an hour, they will touch ground. Yippee. Look how much Tin aged while he was gone::::::
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Austerity and Non-attachment
So I was telling a friend that 2011 is going to be austerity year for us and she said, wow, us too. Then she sent me this from thebigpicture newsletter – note the second bullet. Tuesday Long Reads Merriam-Webster’s most searched word in 2010: Austerity Inflation stat update Kass: Surprises for 2011 The Dark Side of the Gold Boom – Part II: Toxic Gold in Nigeria LEH: Its All Good Now! Europe still can’t turn…