I write here much less often than I once did, but just now I "accidentally" set up to write on this blog instead of on Facebook, and am going to stay the course.  The other day I tested positive for COVID after having felt sick for awhile.  Now I'm back to being negative, have been for a few days. Went to a wonderful wedding last night.  Sometimes I go to affairs where I know just the parents of the bride or groom, or just the bride or groom themselves.  During those weddings I can get lonely even when (or sometimes especially when) I end up engaging with the strangers around me.

Last night I knew almost everyone at my table and I like them a great deal, dear friends - many.  It was a Washington Heights reunion, the wedding of a girl I know since before she was born, and I'm close with her brother, parents, grandmother.  I was surrounded by the bride's aunts and uncles, all of whom I know through the warm patriarchal Shabbos table of her grandparents.  What a wonderful thing - to dance, to walk and talk, to truly connect in celebration.

I have a 3 o'clock chavrusa.  He's never late.  So any second I expect to be caught off guard (sic) by his distinctive bell ring as we go back to going through Tehillim.  One of the things I've learned in looking at Tehillim is that the lines are almost always doubled, something like this: The lines of Tehillim are doubled / Psalms sentences come in two halves.

Wishing you well whomever and wherever you are!