Normally, in the morning, I read yesterday’s paper (because, when I get up, today’s paper hasn’t arrived yet). So, this morning, I read yesterday’s Daily News. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Jeanne Londe, who was my co-chair of Social Action when I was at Kol Tikvah, is good friends with George McGovern! I also learned that George McGovern likes Peter, Paul, and Mary and has a Newfoundland dog (just like ixixlix). Neat.
In other news, yesterday went well (other than another headache). I spent the day reorganizing my games into some new storage bins—I created bins for word games, trivia games, party games, and 6-8 hour games, and moved a batch of “old games that I likely won’t play but want to keep” to the garage. This freed up a batch of space, resulting in some cascade rearrangements. This is a good thing. The evening was the Tu B’Shevat seder at Temple Beth Hillel. The seder was the model of efficiency (Rabbi Jim starts and ends on time), but I found myself missing some aspects of TBT‘s seder. The TBH seder focuses on specific products from trees and their significance (figs, olives, pomegranates, dates, and almonds), whereas TBT‘s focused more on characteristics (eat the entire fruit, edible skin, inedible skin-edible fruit, eat the seeds, etc.). Thus, we really didn’t eat what we think of as fruit at TBH [except, perhaps, the figs] (i.e., kumquats, tangerines, apples, apricots). At least I was able to be a sycophant, giving a fig to my daughter.
[This post is illustrating a new user picture that was derived from a characture of me drawn for the 1993 ACSAC in Orlando.]
