Thursday Night

11:32 PM - Just back from graduation.  The thing itself took a bit over an hour, which was nice.  Then there was really pleasant mingling and congratulating and eating time afterwards.

One parent came over to tell me that she liked the poem I posted earlier today.  Another woman and her husband each approached me to let me know that she worked three of my poems from In The Field into a Sheva Brachot talk (and it turned out the kallah loves haiku) this week.

The poems she used were:

How do you label

loyalty, friendship, and love?

Call it a good day

Walk inside a dream

and from that place make it real

It won't have to end

I cry at weddings

and sometimes when the rain falls

Firework moments

11:59 and Beyond - Someone searched "melo einayim" and this post came up as the number one result. I like the post and the plethora of comments and poems, including Kishka's contibutions - which included the searched words.

I've been reading up a bit on the parsha - Beha'alotcha and thinking about lighting of candles.  I wrote some of my thoughts on the way to graduation and was interested to hear that salutatorian Eliana Bessler used the parsha as a springboard to speak about various Torah themes relating to light (our responsibility to be Ohr LaGoyim, Shabbos candles and the importance of shalom bayit, Chanukah candles and what they mean to us, Bedikat Chameitz and the need to clear out crumbs of imperfection from inside ourselves).

I Light Candles

sometimes 

for the smell

sometimes

for the flame

sometimes 

for the spirit

sometimes

maybe

even for fun

sometimes

for birthdays

sometimes

for parties

sometimes

for cakes

sometimes

to decorate

sometimes

to create

sometimes

for ambiance

of comedy 

or romance

sometimes

Beyond Beyond - Someone once told me that writing 11:59PM for any time after midnight was lying so - even though it's likely only one person cared - I've started writing 11:59 and beyond, and now just introduced beyond beyond.

Today was a grate/great-fulicious day.  Thank you G-d.