If you want to read some of my crazy leftist political rantings,

www.littlewildbouquet.blogspot

is the place to be. Hopefully this way I can spare you guys the rants in the middle of conversation...

So far not so much luck

mayim mayim misason...

These days when people ask me what I think of Yale I'm careful to parse the question - Yale the corporation is an exploitative, hypocritical megacompany which fails to live up to or pursue the ideals of its rhetoric and discourages the students it strives to educate from recognizing connections between their community and their nation, between ( Read more... )

Shrapnel covered up with lip gloss ( Read more... )

Past few years, a couple things hit me hard about Megillat Esther. It is perhaps the one Jewish text (other than, maybe, every other Jewish text) in which Jews of all perspectives find at least one things deeply disturbing. For me, it has a lot to do with the outbreak of ethnic conflict and the role of superpowers in war. The Haman-Mordechai ( Read more... )

Lights sliding across my tongue now ( Read more... )

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Tonight I felt like there was so much but so little I could say, or so little I had to. Tonight was exactly what I needed before tomorrow and at the same time so inadequate an attempt to make it any less drastic a break, any less sudden a disconnect - and tomorrow something (without melodrama) terrible and wonderful begins, and ( Read more... )

The layered steam of thick words left unsaid ( Read more... )

So many conversations. Some dangling, some (for now) at peace. So much and so little to say. Openings and closures. I wish I had more time, although chances are I don't really want it, or I wouldn't know what to do with it... I wish my brother knew how to express that he'll miss me in a way other than taking potshots at me ( Read more... )