Starting Over
My brother's birthday was two days ago. He turned 35. I bought him a card that says something about hoping all of his dreams come true. Usually I send him funny cards, but he's been going through a tornado of crap lately and I wanted to cheer him up.
Yom Kippur is just around the bend. It always stirs up a tornado of crap for me. It's a day of atonement. I remember writing about Yom Kippur in my blog last year. So much has happened in my life since then. And I have a whole new batch of things to atone for. Yom Kippur freaks me out to the core. Even though I'm Jewish, I live with a tremendous amount of guilt that I was trained to carry around from my Baptist upbringing like a two-ton Samsonite suitcase. You know what? I'm going to be the gorilla in that old 1970s Samsonite commercial and I'm going to kick the crap out of that Suitcase of Guilt. And then I'm going to hurl it into the Grand Canyon.
Talk about mixing metaphors...
I bought a new thesaurus last night. I read online recently that writers should use a traditional thesaurus--the kind that groups words by concept--rather than an A-to-Z thesaurus or one you find online. Because the words are grouped by concept, often words will appear in those clusters that you won't find in an A-to-Z thesaurus. The article I was reading said, "A thesaurus is not a synonym finder."
Man, I really am a nerd.
In a few hours I'm going over to a friend's house for dinner. I'm bringing braised collard greens along with corn bread cooked in a cast-iron skillet. I was afraid they wouldn't have any greens at Whole Foods because of the e-coli business. But they had 'em. I almost jumped up and down in the aisle. Greens give me strength.
Yom Kippur is just around the bend. It always stirs up a tornado of crap for me. It's a day of atonement. I remember writing about Yom Kippur in my blog last year. So much has happened in my life since then. And I have a whole new batch of things to atone for. Yom Kippur freaks me out to the core. Even though I'm Jewish, I live with a tremendous amount of guilt that I was trained to carry around from my Baptist upbringing like a two-ton Samsonite suitcase. You know what? I'm going to be the gorilla in that old 1970s Samsonite commercial and I'm going to kick the crap out of that Suitcase of Guilt. And then I'm going to hurl it into the Grand Canyon.
Talk about mixing metaphors...
I bought a new thesaurus last night. I read online recently that writers should use a traditional thesaurus--the kind that groups words by concept--rather than an A-to-Z thesaurus or one you find online. Because the words are grouped by concept, often words will appear in those clusters that you won't find in an A-to-Z thesaurus. The article I was reading said, "A thesaurus is not a synonym finder."
Man, I really am a nerd.
In a few hours I'm going over to a friend's house for dinner. I'm bringing braised collard greens along with corn bread cooked in a cast-iron skillet. I was afraid they wouldn't have any greens at Whole Foods because of the e-coli business. But they had 'em. I almost jumped up and down in the aisle. Greens give me strength.
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