3 HOTD +

Each and everyone

With their own anxieties

Welcome to this world

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Each with their own joy

Less immortalized perhaps

Just as true as pain

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Like everyone else

My soul also thirsts for G-d

Some way and some how

My life's been feeling busy. Last week I wrote three tests. One was postponed due to a last minute school trip for senors to hear Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. Tests are a major thing - reviewing and writing and administering till everyone's done and and and. Two tests this week. Grades were due last week - what about the incompletes? What about the try hards with the low grades? My heart aches for the try hards. Recommendations, recommendations, then a few more.

Shabbos without a nap. Motzai Shabbos spoke at a bat mitzvah of a dear friend's dear daughter. This week my spaces were filled with Steve Martin. It's been a while since a book pulled me in so. Almost no-one pulls me in like Steve. One memorable line - great is easy, good is hard. He says that serendipity will see to it that at some point a great one happens. But making a show good on a regular basis is in control of the performer. This is a profound truth for life - though you hit great now and then, good is hard. It's especially true when you present in front of a crowd.

This was true for me last night - I felt bad having to kill my darlings, but I did the right thing. The acoustics and the crowd were not making it easy, so I didn't insult the audience, didn't shush them, didn't mention the mic, I just cut cut cut and ended asap so the crowd got a good presentation because a poor one was a looming possibility and what would have felt to me like a great one was out of the question.

Wishing everyone a great day.

k

PS - This original song played on the radio as I wrote this and I enjoyed it big time.