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Got to know when to fold them
I came across a bunch of inspirational cards that a friend in San Rafael had given me many moons ago. It was great opening a box of books where I was searching for my Haggadahs. We’re getting ready for Passover and the seder and I have an assortment of them that had gone missing. Inside one box were these cards and so I took them out and read each one and felt quite happy that…
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Weeds in the Garden
I’m always on the sunny side of the street, and even told the first therapist I ever saw that I felt like I had sunshine on my shoulder and was pretty happy most of the time. She told me that I succumbed to magical thinking. She didn’t mean it kindly, but the fact of the matter is I think it’s true – still. I am the manifestation of the bumper sticker MAGIC HAPPENS. My life…
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The uncanny resemblance of Stella and Arlene
IT’S UNCANNY! Stella peed on the floor the other day and I said, “Arlene!” It is uncanny how much Stella looks like Arlene and how I keep feeling like a new chapter is being written just having this puppy in my life. It took a long time for Arlene to get bladder control and to learn about going pissy piss outside. Stella seems to be following in her footsteps. I was showing a photograph of…
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CANCER SUCKS
To the woman in the cream colored VW bug who became apoplectic because I stopped to take this photo – when you see a bald woman taking a photo that says I BEAT CANCER – you don’t know if it’s me it refers to or my friend battling stage IV ovarian cancer – and so show a little tenderness – would ya?
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What is God?
The Spirit Group met last Sunday and this time the topic was What is God? The answer is not so simple. If someone walks up to you and asks, “Do you believe in God?” – most of you will stumble for an answer, because it is not so simple. If you’re like me, and were raised in a religion, in my case Judaism, but you no longer are observant, then you hem and haw over…
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How to Make a Garden
Step One – remove the grass and first part of topsoil: Step Two – hand till the soil: Step Three – add sand if clayey soil, then manure and conditioner, then organic soil, line the bed with wine bottles donated from your local wine store: Step Four – plant vegetables that are prolific, pole beans, cherry tomatoes, and others, along with hardy flowers then mulch:
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Tennessee, Naomi, Stella and Stanley
This weekend, New Orleans hosted the Tennessee Williams Festival and several of my friends were panelist and moderators, and a fellow blogger was covering the festival, which is now in its 28th year. In the past, I’ve always gotten my festival pass as soon as they were available but this year, sign of the times, I was cherry picking which panels to attend. I went to a panel moderated by a friend on memoir writing…
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Purim Comes Alive!
A friend whose band, Panorama Jazz Band, often plays at synagogues around the city, recommended I check out Shir Chadash because he said the community there is vibrant and warm. This is how Tin and I ended up there last Sunday for the reading of the Megillah – the story of Esther and her foolish husband (the King of Persia) and evil Haman who wanted to kill all Jews – which is celebrated in the…