Don’t worry. When it’s long passed time to replace your “camelbak” water bottle, but you continue to forget to do so, you will conveniently leave it somewhere, likely a bathroom stall. Several times the Torah mentions that a particular experience lasted 40 days. I used to think that basically meant, “a long time.” Now I […]
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Life Lessons, 4/8/16 from Atlanta to Memphis
Airports– one of the few public spaces where it’s not only appropriate but appreciated when people direct you toward your baggage. Airplanes– designed to fulfill a tremendous human need but done so in a way that denies or disregards pretty much every other human need in the process. Why is it so comforting to be […]
Life Lessons, 4/7/16
1. Vanity is looking in the mirror and seeing everything but what’s actually there. 2. Those who think life would be better without stormy days have to explain why human beings seem inescapably drawn to making it rain. 3. Music and play are probably the two most universal of languages. 4. Existence and every […]
Life Lessons, 4/6/16
Sometimes others are able to give voice to your heart and soul better than you are. But they don’t always know when they’re doing it. If you tell people what you think then they’ll engage with you and tell you what they think. If you remain concealed in mystery and inscrutable, you will find the […]
Life Lessons, 4/5/16
The legacy of our history is determined by the content and the quality of the stories we tell. It’s human nature to attribute greater significance to the performance than to the rehearsal, though it is the rehearsal that determines the significance of the performance. When we mistake our theory for reality then […]
Life Lessons, 4/4/16
In many ways winter is more interesting than spring. The opportunity to do a mitzvah doesn’t in any way correlate to your interest or readiness to do it. Fruit salad is inherently more exciting than fruit itself. And yet without fruit, fruit salad is a complete and utter absurdity. All human beings understand the idea […]