I came across this in a book I'm reading (FOR FUN) and find it incredible striking... I know I have real posts to be doing, but I want to share this...
Writers on health and happiness have suggested that there is a basic human need for intimacy, that our souls are emotionally starved when we deal with strangers all day long. We need people in our lives who know us throrughly and care about us. Dr. Dean Ornish writes, "Our surivial depends on the healing power of love, intimacy, and relationships." We nee dto feel loved. We need people to tell us that we are special and irreplacable, people who will tend to our needs and banish our fears and insecurities the way our mothers did when we were infants. But we also need to give love, to make a difference in someone's life.
from Living a Life that Matters by Harold S. Kushner
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
WUJS: Wandering Under the Judean Sun
Hello friends!
There is so much that I want to say right now, but I really can't. I don't know if the words are here. (and I desperately need to get to bed...)
The trigger is this:
A number of weeks ago I backed up all of my files so that I could revamp my computer. This evening, in an excuse to procrastinate a paper which I have just finished (and deperately need to fix at somepoint before Mon. - HA HA) I decided that it was time to reload all my files. In doing this I decided that the best background noise for me to work by would be my WUJS videos.
Any of my PCOC friends, I watched some of what I had sent home to you (not all of it is opening on my computer) - Im sorry for the boring-ness and oddity that I sent. I hope that you got an impression of the place that I love so much and a time that I hold so dear.
My dearest WUJieS - I also watched tonight the video from my machzor's siyyum. So much of it - ok all of it - I had no real recollection of until tonight. The quality is not so great picturewise, but the sound is decent and I am reminded of all of our "palmello moments" (as I called them in my speech) that created the expereince that we had together at WUJS.
I can not wait to see so many of you in a month when I am in Israel. Where can we have a big Shabbat?
I will write more soon, but I had to start this... As soon as I figure out how to add video here I will...
I love you and miss you and look forward to seeing you b'aretz soon!
b'ahava ~alicia
There is so much that I want to say right now, but I really can't. I don't know if the words are here. (and I desperately need to get to bed...)
The trigger is this:
A number of weeks ago I backed up all of my files so that I could revamp my computer. This evening, in an excuse to procrastinate a paper which I have just finished (and deperately need to fix at somepoint before Mon. - HA HA) I decided that it was time to reload all my files. In doing this I decided that the best background noise for me to work by would be my WUJS videos.
Any of my PCOC friends, I watched some of what I had sent home to you (not all of it is opening on my computer) - Im sorry for the boring-ness and oddity that I sent. I hope that you got an impression of the place that I love so much and a time that I hold so dear.
My dearest WUJieS - I also watched tonight the video from my machzor's siyyum. So much of it - ok all of it - I had no real recollection of until tonight. The quality is not so great picturewise, but the sound is decent and I am reminded of all of our "palmello moments" (as I called them in my speech) that created the expereince that we had together at WUJS.
I can not wait to see so many of you in a month when I am in Israel. Where can we have a big Shabbat?
I will write more soon, but I had to start this... As soon as I figure out how to add video here I will...
I love you and miss you and look forward to seeing you b'aretz soon!
b'ahava ~alicia
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