The Man I Rescued From His Balcony
A fun one in Splice Today!
Friends, subscribers, countrymen (American and Israeli), lend me your eyes!
My vision is absolutely terrible, I wear reading glasses so strong that my middle school students used to look through them and say, “Miss, you blind!” so I’m sure your eyes are better than mine. Still, I do not physically need your eyes, please keep them in your head. Use them to read my latest in Splice Today:
The Man I Rescued From His Balcony
A funny, true, somewhat wistful story from a time that wasn’t really simpler, wasn’t really easier, definitely was more filled with uncertainty, but that seems less complex than the times we live in now.
The moral of the story: don’t go out on your balcony to watch a thunderstorm.
BTW -- the Medicaid thing would have happened, if not for an outcry:
From Sen. Ron Wyden - <snip>Chutzpah, he said, was behind his staff’s decision to gather and publicize the intel that 50 states were essentially having their Medicaid portals blocked due to the president’s spending freeze, and within a few hours, “we were on our way to being able to push back successfully and get it thrown out.” He calls it an example, “admittedly a modest one,” of traditional politics acting as a check on the executive.
Loved the piece in the link -- so much in there...
Not a feminist 'cause you shave your legs... well once upon a time (& maybe still today) some women felt that shaving their legs was done for men...
Not knowing what a vegetarian is -- amazing how we have such different cultures in this county. But I remember wondering how people could live just on fruits & vegetables; it didn't make sense. I've learned a 'few' things since then, & now am semi-veg.
You really need to get out into nature more (so do I, but at least I live in suburbia & I have a park out my window to look at -- actually it's a judenrein golf course (it's next door neighbor on the other side is a synagogue...). Two yrs ago I went away for Passover to a retreat center that's also an organic farm. I arrived and time stopped. The holiday was wonderful, and being in nature was amazing. I'm going back there this year.