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Moral Cowardice

Footage from last year’s insurrection has been hard to watch. The events of a year ago, and even more the moral cowardice on prominent display since then, pains me physically.

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Wildlife.

I am spending part of the winter in Boca Raton, Florida, in a country club community with hundreds of homes and apartment buildings.

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Lighting the Darkness.

Where I live, the sun will rise at 7:20 AM and set at 4:23 PM on Tuesday, the shortest day of the year. The good news is that we will gain 2-4 minutes each day after that until we reach the June solstice,

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Rudeness

Last Saturday, both my local paper, the Berkshire Eagle, and the New York Times carried guest essays about rudeness.

In “The importance of kindness in the season of light,” Rabbi Neil Hirsch shared an unsettling experience he had while driving with his four-year old son. An impatient driver pulled up to pass him. But instead of simply passing, he slowed down to stare and made “an obscene hand gesture.” The shocked Rabbi had to explain it to his son, who never seen anyone do that before.

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Get a Notebook.

I met with the author Sonia Pilcer the other day. She is going to mentor me through the process of writing my grandmother’s story. “Get a notebook,” was her first advice.

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Henri

It has started raining heavily and the winds are picking up. On one Tropical Storm Henri tracker, the arrow points directly to where I live

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