Chats with Larry Episode 14

On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

Audio quality is okay today (you both sound like you’re on the phone). Larry was really tired, so you didn’t talk for long (just over 9mins). You mention going Christmas tree shopping which could date the episode.

  1. Quote from George Zimmel “excessive physic stimulation”
  2. The French work (sorry Brian I can’t tell what the word is) Larry says it literally means no law I’m hoping you know it.
  3. Contemplating your navel
  4. Find meaning or you end up seeking pleasure
  5. What people talk about on their deathbed

 

Me, Rabbi.

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Way Through

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Flash Bang

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✧✧✧ My buddy Marc meets me near my house at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon so we can bike to the small park named for Elizabeth Caruthers. I looked her up as I started to write this article. Elizabeth Caruthers was an early pioneer woman whose Supreme Court case led to the 1850 Donation Act—ruling that a woman, married or not,

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