We lost Sheepy in the last row of our airplane to New York. To Lola, Sheepy felt like oxygen, food, water, safety, love and peace. To most everyone else, Sheepy was a ragged cloth with a pink nose and two black ceramic eyes. Gray and white abrasions covered the black beads, evidence of time well […]
Surfing emotions
Emotions are like waves. You can’t stop them from coming, but you can decide whether to surf the waves or drown in them. Rabbi David Bassous has great wisdom and a wondrous talent for summarizing the wisdom of others. With some of my own adaptation, he has spoken of emotions, particularly anger, as follows: Do […]
Prediction: Women will be topless soon.
Why not? When Adam and Eve were given fig leaves, I don’t recall either one being told they had to wear a top. Besides, its not like women will be topless everywhere. Men aren’t. You will probably not see topless women walking around the supermarket anymore than you would see topless men. Then again, maybe […]
Another year. It sounds so futurey.
I am the same person I was last year but this year is new. Maybe I will speak with a puppet voice when I am alone in the morning or wear new lenses in my glasses and not tell anyone, not even you. Or maybe I will throw a new canvas on the lawn […]