It is Saturday, sabbath in my Jewish tradition, maybe just a weekend for you. Regardless, it seems like a really good day to indulge one of life’s greatest pleasures: a nap. While you read, I’ll just be drifting off. You take all the time you want with that reading. I’m fine here.
Finding the Good: Individual Spiritual Journeys
I love that each of us gets to choose their own path to spirituality. Your path does not need to be mine. I can respect your path, without imposing my beliefs on you. I do believe that, no matter how our footsteps traverse this world, we each are doing our best to make it a […]
Finding the Good: Cool Mornings
I woke up this morning before the sun came up. The bedroom window was open. The tree frogs were still singing their all-night serenade. A cool breeze occasionally brushed past my shoulder. Life is so so good.
Finding the Good: Garlic
Garlic! Mmmmmm tasty. 🙂 Garlic makes everything better (well, maybe not PB&J sandwiches but darned near everything). Just typing this makes me want to go saute some in butter. By the way, did you know that that spiky weed that grows in your lawn and smells like onion when you mow it down is actually […]
Finding the Good: Landscapers
I was driving along Illinois Route 100 today. Candy and I were on the way to Pere Marquette State Park. I had an ulterior motive, too: checking out the bike trail along that road. Much of that section is part of the MRT, the Mississippi River Trail which runs along the entire length of the […]
Airplane Wheels
I got a flat tire on my airplane and, while I was fixing it, I realized that airplane wheels are kind of odd, at least compared to car and motorcycle and bicycle wheels. So I figured I would share some photos. First of all, I had to negotiate access to the wheel with its resident […]
Finding the Good: Seeing the Moon
Candy and I were sitting on our patio. I looked up and wow the moon was beautiful. Just my opinion but life doesn’t get much better than this. I took a picture but my phone did not do the moon justice (and I’ll admit that I was just too lazy to go inside and get […]
Finding the Good: Everyday Science
Science, for me anyway, is often either A Big Thing or completely invisible. The Big Things are cool, like when the Hubble sends us another awe inspiring image or paleontologists find a fossil of Titanokorys gainesi. But today I am mindful of the science that I often overlook, like the reading glasses perched on my […]
Finding the Good: Butterflies
Today’s good is butterflies or, more precisely, the noise that butterflies make. It would be so cool to hear this in person but I’m glad that at least I can watch it on YouTube.
Finding the Good: Taste
With a little bit of time and a few ingredients, I made my own hummus. I am immensely pleased that I can taste and enjoy good foods. That probably won’t always be the case but today, chickpeas, sesame seeds, olive oil, garlic, and salt have delighted me. In case you are curious, here is my […]
Finding the Good: Healing
I took a long bike ride and finished with sore knees. Maybe I’m not 18 years old any longer. All I had to do was give my body some time and my knees feel better. Magic! Today I am grateful for a body which heals itself, most of the time and from most injuries. Why […]
Finding the Good: Cool Mornings
August was stupidly hot here in Saint Louis. I spent almost the entire month either in my home with the windows closed and the air conditioning on, or outside sweating rivers. This morning, it is 61 degrees outside, the windows are open, and there is a gentle breeze blowing past my bare feet as I […]
Finding the Good: Family
Today I am grateful for my family. I have a wife, sons, grandchildren, daughters and sons in law, and cousins. I have had parents, step-parents, grandparents, ancestors, and a brother; may their souls all be for blessings. We get along well, which is not to say that we have not had our moments ?, but […]
A Livestreaming Year
Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow at sundown. For the second year, Candy and I will livestream the high holy day services for our congregation, United Hebrew Congregation in Saint Louis, MO. But oh what a difference from last year! Then, Candy and I were scrambling as hard as we could to broadcast something good in the […]
154 Miles Biking the Katy Trail
What do you do when you want to travel, want to avoid COVID-19, and have a bicycle? How about trying a four-day bike tour? Never mind that I had never done a bike tour. Never mind that I am 63 years old. Never mind that I had not camped much in decades. Never mind that […]
500 Miles on My Trek Verve+ 2
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four,Lord I’m 500 miles from my home.500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 milesLord I’m five hundred miles from my home. Traditional On Sunday morning, I passed 500 miles on my new Trek Verve+ 2 bike. I guess that means it is no longer […]
Dear Ford… About the Maverick
Dear Ford, The Maverick is a fine car, like this. I owned one so I know. Except for that time when it trashed a water pump and I had to nurse it home from Michigan to Indiana at 2:00am and I missed a midterm because my car wouldn’t get me back to Ann Arbor, it […]
Trek Verve+ 2 Electric Bicycle
I took the plunge and bought an electric bicycle a/k/a e-bike and holy cow am I delighted. I had forgotten how much I enjoy being outside on a bike. Having an electric motor to help me up the hills vanquishes all of the pain so all I have now is the fun and the aerobic […]
Translate Biblical Hebrew to English
When I am in my weekly Torah study class, I often find myself wondering, “That’s what the English says but what does the original Hebrew say?” As a guy who does not read or speak Hebrew, here is how I figure it out. The built-in Hebrew dictionary at sefaria.org makes it easy to translate biblical […]
You Pay $0.00
My wife is on Medicare and had cataract surgery. We just got the statement of benefits for the first eye. Total you pay: $0.00 Yay socialized medicine!
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