1. I love figs. I find them to be an elegant and rich fruit. I ate one tonight. But you can’t only eat one. What’s your take on pits? Do they bother you because of the fear of swallowing them, or do you like them because they are something sweet to suck on? 2. A [...]
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You Might Have Missed this Moment $15
(I used the dollar sign above instead of the pound button because I like the way it looks) 1. I was behind a driver trainer today and she stopped at a stop sign and then kept stopped. Damn. I was hot and sweaty and just wanted to get home, having tried to force my new-old [...]
You Might Have Missed this Moment #13
1. I went into a candy store today. Shortly afterwards a kid came in, perhaps 2 years old, with his Mom. I said to his Mom, “man a kid in a candy store” – living proof of a cliché. It’s like peering over your fence and discovering that the grass really is greener, or living in a [...]
You Must Have Missed this Moment #12
1. I dropped by Burger Shack today with my son, and John the co-owner gave him a vanilla milkshake. John and Joe, his brother, always treat us like family and we hug each other when we meet. And one of the things I love about our relationship is that they are Israeli born Arabs. Our [...]
You Might Have Missed this Moment #11
1. I did a workshop at a shelter the other day for Ve’ahavta’s www.veahavta.org Creative Writing Contest for the Homeless. We asked the people living there to write a short piece beginning with ‘I remember…’. One fellow came up and read his paragraph on remembering when insects really started to bug him. An older woman, who apparently [...]
You Might Have Missed this Moment #10
1. I spoke to seniors (people with older bodies and young spirits) today at a synagogue. I told them they know much more about life than me and the challenges of being a Jew. I reminded them it was they who saw the signs in the 40s and 50s in downtown Toronto reading, “No Jews and Dogs [...]
You Might have Missed this Moment #8 -Would You Adopt?
1. A grandmother was playing with her grandson at the park my son, his Mom and I were at today. She got upset with him and started to walk away. He was eight. I said to her, ‘come on now Grandma’ you can’t walk away because you’re upset, and I suggested to her grandson that he [...]
You Might Have Missed this Moment #7 – Do you give a trades person a glass of water?
1. I know that today as you read this there is an incredible gathering of people somewhere who are celebrating life in some way. I know that today while I’m sitting in a difficult meeting, in the world, not far from home, some people will be dancing and singing in a spirit befitting royalty. I [...]
You Might have Missed this Moment #6 – Have you ever lost a good friend?
1. A Holocaust Survivor told me today she remembers when the SS reached into a bunker where she and her parents were hiding during the Holocaust and dragged them out, and others be they Jewish or non-Jewish. I wondered what it must have been like to be a little girl and watch your parents being dehumanized and [...]
