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Anti-Racist in-training

Biking with Annie   On this, our second day of Camp Spend-the-Morning-with-Dad-Thanks-to-Covid-19, Emmett peels off to bike around the park to complete his exercise commitment.

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The Logic Of Love

The Scorpion and the Frog   In the 1955 film, Confidential Report, Orson Wells, in the role as the mysterious tycoon Gregory Arkadin, introduces to

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Black Lives Matter

Mess. With intent to douse her brother with water, my 11-year-old Annie tugged on the backyard garden hose. “Stop! Stop! Stop!” I shouted. She didn’t

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It was wrong

  It was wrong We had decided to stain the diminutive cedar fence Minwax 203 — Early American. Two months into Covid-19. We conscript the

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Not Well Adjusted

The side-of-the-road experience We are engaged, not yet married. Her white Honda civic climbs the pass between the Angeles National and San Bernardino National Forests. Making

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Meditation is Magic

Podcast: Meditation is Magic: Rabbi Brian does a reading of the book MEDITATION IS MAGIC with his friends Lisa Arch and Robert Alan Beuth.

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Control or Freedom

Freedom My virtual coffee-chat friend says, “I’m not in charge of the universe.” As she and I can’t meet in person, we are having an

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Saturday Service

Podcast: Rabbi Brian and friends gathered on the internet to have a spiritual-religious-gathering on May 02. The theme was UNCERTAINTY.

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How are you?

“How are you?” “It’s complicated.”   It’s my third year of teaching math full time. I’m early enough to get my favorite parking spot. I

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