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Archive for May, 2009

I’m gonna let you in on a little secret; actually, a great secret. But not quite yet.
It’s an abbreviated week. This evening the holiday of Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, begins. I’m on my way to celebrate and teach. Because of other obligations, I haven’t had time to prepare something for you yet this week. [...]

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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Trust is such a delicate bird. I’ve been planting recently, a number of things—hopes, ideas, dreams…Now, waiting to see how fertile the soil is, I grow restive; which way will things grow?
I’ve long admired the above quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., so [...]

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I don’t know how most of you do it. I’ve been in the city a week now, and I’m just about cooked.
One thing I’ve noticed out here is how much green has become part of the landscape. It’s everywhere. Seems that the big beast of profit has figured out green sells. This is probably no [...]

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Living as a mostly hermit, I’m not as in touch with the daily news as I suspect other bloggers must be. The fact that I knew, last week, that Chrysler was going under for its “surgical” procedure was a matter of chance.
I aim, little by little, to tune into news that doesn’t change. Ezra Pound [...]

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What astonishes me, in the midst of our generalized global economic meltdown, is how shortsighted we still seem to be. Even as the spiraling fates of American industry flash us time-lapsed glimpses of our own future, we still don’t seem to get it.
Among this week’s calls to restructure the American auto industry, I haven’t seen [...]

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