Yesterday, on October 26th, 2018, the American Jewish community experienced what I am calling an American Pogrom. Historians and scholars may rightly object to my appropriation of this term, but I’ll make my argument nonetheless. As most of us know, the site of the pogrom was the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill […]
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Phish in Alpharetta, August 2018
Phish played 3 shows at my home venue- Verizon Amphitheater in Alpharetta on 8/3-5/18. I went to the Saturday and Sunday night shows (nights 2 and 3). Here are some observations and recollections. The Georgia heat didn’t disappoint. It was hot and the humidity was off the charts. On Saturday night it rained during the […]
Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies, 2018
Last night I attended my 2nd Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies event. This year’s enticement was a live show from 7/7/89. And what a show it was. It’s a delightful feeling to pull up to a local movie theater for a Grateful Dead concert rather than the more typical fare– say Ant Man. […]
We Come Full Circle
We Come Full Circle A circle is opened. Sitting in the circle: People of different faiths, backgrounds, experiences, colors, voices, faces, hopes, fears, loves, names. Singing: to punctuate the silence. Silence: to punctuate the song. Eyes closed: visions unfold. Eyes open: seeing the love between. Together: a healing. A circle is closed.
The Well
The Well Sometimes the well, it runs dry Sometimes the heart, just wants to cry Sometimes the spirit, feels like it might die Sometimes the well, it just runs dry Sometimes the well, it overflows Sometimes the heart, reaps what it sows Sometimes the face, can’t help but glow Sometimes the well, […]
Film Review: RBG
Having heard great things about the recently released documentary, RBG, my wife and I decided to see it. We don’t see many films in the theater these days, so this was something of an event in and of itself. After watching the film we both had the same assessment: mediocre. Typically, I wouldn’t review a […]