by danya | Mar 1, 2007 | Blog
This gorgeous little boy (no, not the monkey) is Benjamin Jerome, born February 19th. He is the new adoptive son of my dear wonderful friends Laura and Micah (who has just posted about this, of course, on his own blog.) They are two truly extraordinary people, and...
by danya | Feb 27, 2007 | Blog
…but close is not the same thing as actually done. I now pronounce ch. 1 Done For Now (we’ll be seeing one another soon enough at the revisions factory) and push forward, bravely, to battle ch. 9 and the afterword. But not today. I have some things to do...
by danya | Feb 27, 2007 | Blog
Today we’re learning Mishnah Brachot 4:6: “If one was sitting in a boat, or in a wagon, or on a raft, [when one prays], one should focus one’s heart toward the Holy of Holies.” Some background: When one prayes the Shmoneh Esrei (the Amidah, one...
by danya | Feb 26, 2007 | Blog
Today’s meditation brought to you by Urbandictionary.com:A guy walks up to me and asks ‘What’s Punk?’. So I kick over a garbage can and say ‘That’s punk!’. So he kicks over the garbage can and says ‘That’s...
by danya | Feb 26, 2007 | Blog
I don’t know if this site was down yesterday or if my own internet was being screwy (both plausible; I had trouble pulling up a couple of other sites and didn’t have time to go dinking around to figure out why), but now at least in my own home, things are...
by danya | Feb 21, 2007 | Blog
Today I spent the whole day reading and writing about existentialism. Oof. Sartre, I might add, looks increasingly feeble in his claims of atheism the more I read him. He’s constantly talking to and about the God in whom he doesn’t (really! He...
