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I was thinking of looking at posts from this day over the past five years of blogging. Wow, five years. Time flies. I was trying to remember when it was that I sat with the school float and was surprised that it was two years ago. On what feels like the other hand my six week stint in Israel was four years ago.

In May of just last year I wrote before sleep - three poems about forgiveness, and included an idea I learned from Rav Nachman Kahane - that Yosef never told the brothers he forgave them. Posting before sleep, when I'm really on the way is still new. I am really on the way out, truly free write and therefore tend to not recall those posts till I see them again. Also last May I wrote this backwards alphabetical poem, which I totally forgot about yet like. And this poem about our various selves.

In May '08 I wrote this post of haiku, with extras hidden in the comments. I worry about those posts where I say a lot in the comments. I recently started backing up posts (poo poo poo) but not comments. That year Pesach was in May and I took some photos in and around Camp Isabella Freedman.

In May '07 I bought a rug at a street fair while on a date. I still have the rug.

On May 6, 2007 I marched in the Israel Day Parade and wrote a poem about it. That day, at the parade, a previously anonymous reader came up to me and told me who he/she was.

In May '06 I posted this poem by Aaron (OBM) and Mirty got it. I also posted this poem by Tom Wayman shortly before I wrote him and he wrote me back and sent me a free copy of his book. I miss my walks to the park nearby the old school building's campus. I miss working with Rabbi Yitzchak Twerski. I hope that somewhere I have a copy, or that perhaps it's in an administrative file, of the beautiful write up he gave me - which I shared a bit about (here) to the joy of my parents and others. I miss the days when there was a chevra of bloggers who are now more low key or gone, I miss the chevra that I wrote about and heard from - here.

In May '05 I wrote this haiku and shared it in a post that I named Link Heaven:

elegant anguish

feeling, sitting on a blog:

a tint all its own

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That was shortly after Rav Wolbe passed away and I wrote about him and mussar and and and. That month I also wrote about Rock Davis and her friend Richard Joel and was honored with a comment by my Fairy Blogmother Esther Kustanowitz.

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I wrote about sharing anorexia of the soul with Richard Lewis.

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That May I shared a joke that someone had shared with me on Passover, a joke which I wore on the day I posted it.

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I've shared a lot over the year. may G-d bless us to live and be well and share more here.