Another Roadside Definition
Neal @ March 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
FUNNY THING ABOUT DEFINING GOD: Despite the impossibility of the task, it does draw one’s imagination and eloquence (or directness, if you’re lucky). I made a stab at it in http://metaphorager.net/working-definition/, tried to understand my understanding in /four-points-of-contact/ and reflected on how I got there in /judaism-as-art/. But waking from a nice Shabbat nap this [...]
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Letter To A Dead Friend
Neal @ January 26, 2010 # One Comment
Dear Sputnik,
The attached photo of you arrived from a mutual friend two days ago, on what should have been your 48th birthday. I say “should” because it’s a primate conceit that the world be arranged according to our convenience. Were that the case, I’d likely be talking to you now, and about something differently [...]
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Three Hard Things
Neal @ January 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Kicking a whale up a beach
Braiding grape jelly
Comforting the chronically afflicted.
(1/22/09 P.S. to RW: who asked “Why would you kick a whale?” The only reason I can think of is that 1) he’s down, and 2) you’re that sort of fellow.)
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Modern Manners, Economywise
Neal @ November 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
IF THE PERSON AHEAD OF you in the checkout line is stocking up on Meow Mix, don’t ask about their cat.
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Pithyism #2
Neal @ November 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
THE REASON WE NEED each other is that life rarely contains enough different viewpoints to even begin understanding Life.
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