fortunately ketzl and i were able to go out for a walk, and then later he went out on his tether. cool. a bit damp. but better than nothing. most of the worms are now gone, thank goodness. the 20 or 30 a few doors down was pretty daunting. ketzl played with a few tonight but i think has given up eating them. hey, it's protein.
good news. my friend from healdsburg up north by santa rosa is coming to a gamba workshop at stanford on saturday. she will come down the night before and we will do dinner and she will stay overnight. i had to explain that ketzl does not recognize shabbat to let me sleep in on Saturday mornings. ah well.
having trouble resolving the ebay hacking that daniel noticed a few days ago. live chats have timed out or something. they say they have notified sellers that they were not genuine offers. but i can't seem to reset the password.
dr. vint cerf spoke last night at the synagogue. he had a delicate balance between speaking to the average consumer and the highly sophisticated techies in the audience. he is considered one of the fathers of the internet (not Al Gore) and he talked about the past, present and future of this amazing thing. like getting a cell phone call from your refrigerator reminding you to bring home marinara sauce but all the other ingredients for a pasta dinner are available. very sweet man, great sense of humor. his official job title: chief internet evangelist at google. pretty nifty.
the monday night group is happy to get together for dinner on monday, when technically we are on week 1 of 2 weeks off. elephant bar on hamilton. one of the first restaurants linda and i went to on her early trips to california. i wrote a small poem and shared it last week. written on Jan 13, 10 months after Linda died.
not a tissue alert (i don't think):
same and different
to my monday night group, with love and appreciation
we are so very different
one from another
different backgrounds
different jobs
different ages
different experiences
individuals who would not under normal circumstances
necessarily be drawn to one another.
and yet the one thing makes us all the same
is so much more important
than our differences
it is our very humanity
our sameness in the face of loss
having to claw our ways back to life
rejoicing at the baby steps
not knowing when the tears will come joins us
laughing together joins us
cheering each other on with each new step on our journeys
as we reassemble the pieces of our shattered existences
and move to a new wholeness.
and so while we are so very different
we are all so much more the same.
