Monday, Monday

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"This Is Life..."

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

That was told to me years ago by a friend who I imagine is rooting for those she left behind.

One little step at a time. This blog has accumulated into whatever it is - one step at a time. So too, the things that I am less anxious to do than write right here can be done one piece at a time.

Babies don't believe
they can walk and then they do
one step at a time

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Smile

Two Jews walk into a bar...They buy it.

A rabbi walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder. "Where'd you get him?" - the bartender asks. "In Brooklyn, there's thousands of them", the frog answers.

What does a snail say while riding on a turtle's back? "Wheeee!!!"

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Five Questions - Four Answers

A dear friend wrote me five questions. If you're a blogger feel free to consider this a meme" and to consider yourself "tagged." These are posted the way they were written to my friend (thus the pronoun you in #5).


1) If you could be in any physical place right now, where would you be?

Under the water fall at Nachal Arugot, or at the kotel. I feel guilty not saying the kotel first, but honestly the other came to my mind first - though it very possibly really is the kotel and the other is second.

2) If, miraculously, time and all the people in the world stood still for 60 minutes, what would you do?

Hmmm. Not sure how that would work. Everyone and everything stood still huh? I'd probably sit and write about how freaked out I was - or whatever my thoughts and feeling were about this phenomenon. If this sounds like a cop out, let me know.

3) If you were not a teacher, what profession would you prefer?

To make my living off of some form of writing - journalism, stories, books. And speaking publicly or performing in relation to that job.

4) If you could have lunch with any fictional character, who would you eat with?

The first one that comes to mind is Holden Caulfield, although it might not be that much fun. Still, I'd go for it.

5) If you could give mussar to a former girlfriend/date, what would you say?

This is a difficult one. (With all of these I want you to answer too. And with this one - a thought came to mind that since your girlfriend/date has been the same for some time - poo poo poo - I wonder what the mussar in this context would be for your wife. But there's a code. No married friend of mine has ever spoken to me about a relationship he was in post marriage, ie. with his wife - with the exception of real crisis situations.

REST OF ANSWER #5 DELETED DUE TO BETTER JUDGEMENT

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J So

Jill Sobule sings she

doesn't want to get bitter

and she sings to me

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As I write this I'm listening to an archived Sobule concert. She just sang Bitter, about about not wanting to grow old before she has to. Positive thinking is so key.

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Any - Like You Know --- Thoughts?

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A few months back at a bar mitzvah I was privy to a conversation between adult parents that included a pun from one of the conversants about Pot Le'Orchim (referring to marijuana) and the other fellow replying "I'm up for that man." This brought to mind a question that I sometimes wonder about. With all the talk about kids not doing pot - how many parents in the frum (particularly the sociologically Modern Orthodox) Jewish world smoke/do pot? I first started thinking about this when I dated a divorced woman, who is the mother of three and confided in me that she smokes pot on a regular social basis. (Let the record show that I never in my life tried pot. Although as a kid many around me did, I didn't. Really.)