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With all of the flooding in Hurricane Ian, we must not forget our priorities in foreign parts of the world, like the War in Ukraine, as the Russians have invaded. And, of course, we must think further, when it is over, about Crimea and other places the Russians have invaded. More, we must bear inContinue reading “Remembering Ukraine”

Someday I hope to read from A Gandhi Reader, hoping to imitate the great man who said, “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” I am ashamed to say I see nothing in common with me and the great Hindu. Even our diets are dissimilar. For a while IContinue reading “In Gandhi’s Footsteps”

I am going to begin this blog with the simple fact that Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. Then I will talk about my first book: Children of the Cat Goddess, about a race of super-intelligent alien Cats that exist on a different world in the Galaxy. I came up with these Cats in early collegeContinue reading “Children of the Cat Goddess I”

As any of my readers know, my favorite writer is Charles Dickens. I love him for his compassion, for his humor, for his challenge on behalf of the poor to those who were rich. I know he tended to focus on the social morality within England when he wrote, but I believe that despite thisContinue reading “The Ethos of Writing”

I know yesterday I wrote about the sorrow that sometimes permeates my life. Yet today I want to write about something that gave me joy, if my own part in “Tikkun Olam” (repairing the world) is perhaps a small one. I thought of it only because watching TV I saw a segment of a newsContinue reading “To Save a World”

As the reader of my blog knows, the truth about my love life is its absence. My current “beloved” is Vlad. As is often the case, I feel his existence in my life is bigger than my existence in his. I hope such longings are not mere “obsessions” for a psychiatrists to analyze. I hadContinue reading “In Love with Love”

Today I finished reading This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared. It was… an unusual book, attempting to blend Judaism and, I think, Buddhism. I rarely know what to make of such attempts; on the one level I appreciate I appreciate their ecumenicism. I think that two things are vital to keeping this worldContinue reading “Life is a Timed Test III”

I read up to page 175 of This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared today after my Shabbat afternoon nap. The portion that strikes me is about a man who had “made it all” until his children’s drug addiction brought his, his wife’s, and his children’s lives all go to pieces. He spoke ofContinue reading “Life is a Time Test II”

I have read up to page 113 in This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared but hope that I shall read up to page 125 by the time this evening is up. Tomorrow I shall not read from the book, instead favoring The Last Unicorn. However, since we are having a Tuesday night class,Continue reading “Life is a Timed Test”

I did read 58 pages of This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared. Tomorrow I plan to read more of it, too. Yet I also began the 1st 50 pages of The Last Unicorn. I suppose having read so little of either book it must seem strange that I am naming this Blog afterContinue reading “Justice, Justice, Seek Ye Justice”