AM Inspiration

I have a neighbor who is off her meds..literally and therefore to quote my other neighbor "that girl is an oddball!" and that she is. She is an artist and she lives by herself and it does not seem that there is much that occupies her time. But there is one exception; her car. She spends hours upon hours upon hours..waxing..cleaning.inside..outside..i didn't even realize it was possible to spend that much time cleaning her car. Its not like she ever drives it anywhere and not like its an incredible car that deserves such lavish attention. Its not a Porsche, its not a classic Caddie, its not even a Lexus. It is a regular old Honda sedan. This time, though she has taken it to an all new level of OCD. Now that she has spent all that time washing and waxing the car that she never drives..she decided that it may behoove her to put a plastic cover on her car so that her efforts will not be ruined by a freak storm or the like. OK..that is understandable. The mind boggling p...

I have  been accused of needing to go back to school for my lack of funny stories that make it to the blog, my life has become boring, i go to work i go to the gym and try to catch some zzzzzs in the interim. perhaps Gd is telling me that He has finished teaching me, perhaps i have had my share of excitement and its someone Else's turn now. Whatever the case, its true aside for the occasion blood squirt in lab, there isn't much to report. but this week, at the gym, something came up and i should have had my guard up, learn from the past but i was completely caught unaware..off guard for it has been so long. So I'm in the child care room and i was talking to one of the members, a mother of a child in the room. She says "can i ask you a little bit of a weird question" Sure i said. "Can you speak Hebrew and read and write?" uhuh (this is where i shudve stopped -but no..) "my boss is a minister..." (OMG freaking out no this is not happening...

Imagine the scene, you have been waiting desperately for a call, hours, days maybe..when suddenly that special ring tone jingles and you pick up on the first ring saying "hey" in a way that is reserved for your special peeps..and then there is nothing! no sound coming from her end, she cannot hear you..there is absolutely no sound waves being transmitted from one end to the other..talk about disappointing! but wait, it gets better. you reason with yourself that its not that big a deal, one day without a phone is probably good for you, after all R'Wallerstein was going on and on and on last night about the evils of today's technology..so its not that bad. After work, I'll go to the store, they will fix it..and it will all be blessedly glorious! After work, you get into the car, driving along in after work traffic and as you reach for your phone to make good use of this traffic time..you remember..hello..the reason I'm here in the first place is cuz my phone...

What are you doing now? What are you doing NOW? WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW!!!? This line of questioning followed me all through the days of chag. Every moment that was not specifically designated to an action..was followed by "what are you doing now?" I had a friend come for YT who cannot sit still, she always has to be moving, doing, changing. As annoying as it was sometimes (not really that annoying) it really got me thinking. There is a story of I believe about R'Pincus who was talking to his Rebbe on Shabbat and he was playing with the fence, opening and closing the gate, basically fiddling with the door. His Rebbe asked him "what are you doing?" "Nothing" he replied. Again the Rebbe asked him "what are you doing?" only then did he realize...his Rebbe then gave him mussar,reminding him that on Shabbat a Jew has to be mindful of every action, every thought that is expressed on this holy day. As Jews, this concept applies more than just t...