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So How Was Our Trip to California?
So How Was Our Trip to California? By now, we’ve been home from California for a week. But what an odd five days we had there! I’ll give you the condensed version. For once, there were no missed connections between … Continue reading →
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Tagged acupuncture, betrayal, Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, converts as turncoats, Covid quarantine, dietary restrictions, doomed aristocrats, Dr. Mark Bussell, effective neuropathy treatment, exquisite politeness, food allergies, Gideon Bible, glutens and dairy, inflammatory response, Jewish converts, Jews for Jesus, life's blessings, life's punches, Loma Linda Neuropathic Therapy Center, Matthew's Gospel, mechanistic view of body, medical sadism, neuropathy, Omicron variant, physical therapy, psychology of humiliation, religious experience, responsibility to one's health, rift between Christian and Jew, Self-betrayal, The Book of Mormon, the Guillotine, theology of humiliation, traveling in a pandemic, trip away from home, trying to be mature, understanding Jesus
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Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary
Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary Today, the twentieth of January, is the actual day of our 20th wedding anniversary, though we had our celebratory dinner last Friday, after seeing the James Baldwin movie, “If Beale Street Could Talk.” At the restaurant, … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic criteria, academic dissenter, academic fights, anniversary, attraction of opposites, avoiding fights, “If Beale Street Could Talk”, black ex-patriot writers, boringly normal, bracketing attachments, bracketing the natural attitude, celebratory dinner, collegial rivalry, contemplation of essences, cri de coeur, defining projects, desire to know, dodging fights, Edmund Husserl, emotional defenses, emotional intelligence, falling in love, falling out of love, fight to the finish, fight with my name on it, James Baldwin, knowing one is in love, life risks, life summersault, life-changing summons, literary cri de coeur, love and courage, male ego, marital adjustments, marital real life, Marriage, movie goers, movie reviews, nostalgia, outing someone, Patrick Moynihan, personnel decisions, phenomenological reduction, political firing, political strategizing, queer and black, religious experience, religious summons, restaurant noise, Richard Wright, risking sacred things, romantic courage, romantic idealization, romantic while black, sacred things, saving Brooklyn College, sharing a world, sharing values, the marital adventure, the meaning of marriage, the right wife, vital things, wedding anniversary, womanly skills, writer’s rivalry, yearning
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Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag.” The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten. As … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", ad hominem attack, bigotry, Christian friends, collegiality violated, dangerous pessimism, dark corners, dark memory, double standard, European Femininity, European women, evasion, G.I. Bride, German complicity, good guys, groupthink, Hitler’s reading list, Hitler’s sport events, in the wrong job, insulting speech, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish neighbors, Jewish opinion, loaded questions, memory, naturalistic worldview, outdoor cafes, outdoor prayer, peaceniks, personal stories, picking a quarrel, prayer as last resort, religious experience, religious turn, requirements of priesthood, self-deception, self-righteousness, Shoah, talking to God, the Holocaust, the human soul, the Other, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, war-time trauma, womanly arts, wrong life path, wrong vocation
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“Conversations with My Foot”
Conversations with My Foot The other day I got an email from Elmer Sprague, my long-time friend and senior colleague. He’d read “It’s Not Enough to be Intelligent” and heard its distress call. As indeed some other friends had. “Dear … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham, acupuncture, alternative medicine, chakras, covenant, covenant with Israel, depression, Elmer Sprague, energy work, Evil, F.H. Bradley, force, historical life, holistic healing, Holocaust, Jewish eyes, medical team, meridians, natural forces, neuropathy, past life memory, problem of evil, religion, religious diversity, religious experience, rootlessness, roots, the chi, ying and yang
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