Scenes From A Day

I -

It's 6:26 A.M and I need to be out of the house in a few minutes. And yet. I wanted to write. I woke up thinking about children. My mother and father had/have two. Mom (OBM) used to tell one of her children that he wrote things in his blog that he shouldn't. I don't have children. I still hope and pray I will and I won't say more than that right here and now. Yesterday I spent some time with a dear childhood friend and his twenty year old son. The son made a comment about his own imperfections that struck me. Last night a friend of mine with a bunch of kids ranging from infant to 5, in a worn out mood, said that "people have kids because the species must continue, there is no logic to it." I don't agree and I don't think a rested her (if she could please G-d be blessed with some rest) agrees with her.

Besides everything

children are markers

something to hold

the years quickly fading

II -

1:44 PM. I am in the middle of a great chat with a student, a self-described "cynic/seeker.". He is a true intellectual and shared many profound thoughts and 2 wonderful quotes:


"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford


"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it." - Dale Carnegie


III -

8:30 PM - I'm soaked to the bone, just walked through my door. It took an hour and a half to get from work to a class Chanukah party a few miles away from the school. (Does it make more sense for a teacher to speak of coming and going from work or school? If you say school does it sound like you are in school?) Need to dry off and breathe.

Torrential rains fall

Last Chanukah candles burn

Floor heater buzzes

IV -

11:21 PM - Still recouping from being a rider of the storm. Papers lie at the foot of the heater. I dried up, ironically, after fulfilling the need to shower. Time to go to sleep. So many things to get done. Sleeping can be an act of faith, "letting go and letting G-d."

Love others like you

(The rest is commentary)

And not like you too