Sundry Thoughts

The Other Shoe

By Kay Ryan

Oh if it were

only the other

shoe hanging

in space before

joining its mate.

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While Passing Another Shopper In Shoprite

Woman - Are you Irish?

Me - No.

Woman - You look Irish.

Me - Thank you.

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I read this piece by Joe Klein in 1992 when it came out. The gorilla story, which comes at the very end of the piece fits with my previous post, about Noach.

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The saying is true

We learn most from our students

You give, you get

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I learned this word from a student during a Torah Guidance talk:

Omnibenevolence - unlimited or infinite benevolence." It is a technical term used more in the academic literature on the philosophy of religion.

And I taught him this one:

Panacea- 1. a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all. 2. an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties.

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Last week in The Times' article on Andrew Cuomo they described him as possessing "a focus on details that can lead to 'paralysis by analysis." That resonated.

It also included this which interested me because I've been intrigued by Mario Cuomo since I was a kid: "And those who have been around the Cuomo family for years said the attorney general was far more pragmatic and action-oriented than his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, whose reputation for indecisiveness earned him the nickname, "Hamlet on the Hudson."