Sunday, Sunday 2
On the left please find the rug that I recently bought at a street fair. I didn't think of it when I bought it, but I realize now that it bears similarity (more so in the photo than actually) to curtains that hung in my childhood bedroom. It's a small rectangular rug that will serve as the fifteen year old rug that it is replacing. Thirty bucks seems reasonable. I bargained the guy down from sixty, although it was more like he bargained himself down. It felt a bit like that Life of Brian scene - "don't you want to haggle?"--------------------------------
This was taken at 7:06 AM on my way to my ride. It is the famous Yeshiva University building with a flat bed truck in front of it. Reminds me of the Seinfeld routine about how odd it is that paper weights are such popular gifts, he muses - "Where do people do paper work, on the back of flat bed trucks?"It's funny how things that don't seem to match come together unplanned. Who's have put this truck with this building? Not me.
Isn't this a beautiful building? Why don't they build buildings like that anymore? Or do they?
I used to marvel as Rabbi Norman Lamm exited that building and entered his limo. It struck me that if would have walked around the block to buy a soda no-one would have known who he was. But here he is king.
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A guard stopped me
when I snapped this.
I wonder why he
didn't stop the guy
who stole the letter "I".
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It's Sunday, Mother's Day. I wish everyone a good day. May we be blessed to care for our body's souls. May we be blessed to use our time well. May we be blessed to stop and think - if for but a moment.
I'm brimming with thought today and you may hear from me again.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 1:29 PM
4 Comments:
Thanks for sharing those great haiku thoughts; I like the one written on/about the subway!
As for Barry Manilow, I have a 2-album Greatest Hits or Live album (can't remember which now) that I bought all those years ago and listened to over and over on the record player. "Weekend in New England" is a beautiful song...
A guard stopped me when I snapped this. I wonder why he didn't stop the guy who stole the letter "I".
lol :-)
Maybe he's trying to make up for his past failing!
I like the phrase "brimming with thought." Apt and useful.
Thanks, Pearl - I thought of the subway one as kind of a throw away, but it's true to the haiku form.
I think it was a live album. That wa sbig. There's a part where he goes in the middle of the song - "I hate this part - I hate this part!" I miss albums. And songs like that one.
Thanks for getting that Steg.
Thanks Anned - I didn't give it much thought, now that yoiu mention it I like it too.
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