Perfect sentences, and the shrub.

Some days, just leafing through blogs, I come across one perfect sentence. Like this one from Lileks… Believing in Bush’s perfidy gives some people the same comfort and emotional nourishment others get from believing in Jesus. Wakes me up better than a cup of tea, it does.

last dream

My mother had not appeared to me in my dreams since her death, until this morning, during the very last dream I had before Chaya came to wake me. She and I were sitting chatting at a table, possibly drinking tea. We were having an ordinary conversation, about nothing I can remember. Then, she pointed Continue reading last dream

Yafo.

Made it to Yafo. And I live in a house like a regular Israeli. Cool, hunh? I live through an extremely bumpy four-hour flight to TLV from Barcelona. Do you know that there’s a special Hebrew prayer to say when there is air turbulence? Well, there is, and the nice Hasid sitting next to me Continue reading Yafo.

self-definition, yet again

You remember when alt.lemur.frink.frink.frink and alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove was distributed on reel-to-reel tape strapped to a carrier pigeon.