Every Day We Live Is a Super Day

6:40 PM - Jacqueline Murekatete, one of the students featured in this article link, just addressed YU Model UN (YUNMUN). Her story and message are powerful and inspiring.

She used the expression fortunate refuge, which loosely inspired this:

Fortunate reform
arrives for the fortunate;
pray for good fortune.

Now it's time for dinner and maybe a super bowl.

8:18 PM -  I'm always thinking back, seconds, minutes, hours, days months years... And I am now - back to a few minutes ago before I brought my stuff up to my room. Back to the people I've bumped into here that I wasn't expecting to see. Back.


The commercials have not grabbed me, from the bunch I've seen. There was one where parents get a kid a little fridge but he thinks it's the car on the street beyond the little gift on the lawn. OK. But they showed this during the Giant -49ers game two weeks ago. I thought these were supposed to be brand new?


A commercial just came on. It's half time... and it's half time in America too... All that matters now is how do we come from behind...how do we win? It turns out at the end that it's Clint Eastwood talking and it's an ad for Chrysler.

I can't help but be - by definition - in the present. The second half just started. It's a close low score of 10-9. But the last time these teams played each other the score at the half was zero - zero. And then it shot up in the second part of the game.

8:44 PM - Right now there's a commercial for Acura. It features Seinfeld and a lot of characters. Leno appears at the end as the villain. I guess this will get buzz. I think they put them on YouTube as soon as they're done on TV. Here.

9:09 PM - They just aired the Ferris Bueller Honda commercial. Too bad it was all over the internet last week.

9:22 PM - It's not really football, more like body ball, or injury ball. It probably shouldn't be legal. Padding shmadding, it's unsafe.

I can't lie. In the same way that a really good action movie can hold the attention of a non fan like me. A big , close, good game like this can grab me, to a large extent.

9:33 PM - Announcer quote of the night: "They should just have these two teams play all the time."

Is it an unfair advantage that the Patriots to be playing for the memory of someone dear to them?

Someone named Manningham just did something really good. This will be a play for the ages - if the Giants can came back and win.

9:41 PM - The game, commercials, and typing is pretty much holding my attention.

Maybe it should be called Time-Out Ball.

9:45 PM - The Giants just got a touchdown. But it's like a chess game, the Patriots wanted them to get it, to buy time. But Brady is injured... Brady wants to have the ball with 57 seconds and eighty yards left. Because if Manning has the ball with a minute left...

10:35 PM - On Shabbos I was introduced nonchalantly to a book, via a footnote on a source sheet. It looks like a good book, big time: The Courage To Teach. In his introduction, author Parker J. Palmer writes, "This book is for teachers who have good days and bad — and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."

A quote was from this book included on his source sheet and read by Scott J. Goldberg, P.H.D, Director of the Institute for University-School Partnership, Azrieli Graduate School, Yeshiva University. The shiur was entitled "Nurturing and Nourishing Neshamos: Keys to Developing Spirituality." Here's Palmer's passage:

"If we want to support each other's inner lives, we must remember a simple truth, the human soul does not want to be fixed, it wants simply to be seen and heard. If we want to see and hear a person's soul, there is another truth we must remember: the soul is like a wild animal - tough resilient and yet shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself."