pre-Passover - 2005

What a day it has been. May have had a bus just pass me by. Maybe not. Then... the morning meeting went badly relative to using Netmeeting. Our Systems folks did not get it running. Disappointing and frustrating, at least! Sheeesh.

Moving right along.... this weekend will be hectic. Two Seders.. one in Sacramento and one, on Sunday, at our home. Ready or not!

I have not gotten my script together yet. I have some ideas and will need to photocopy some songsheets, I think. I need to check what I have at home from previous years. Then build on that. This always happens... I always feel like doing more than I ever do. Sheesh.... AND - no Turkey this year. A chicken dish will be put together. I think I will try to fry a turkey for 4th of July. Hmmm... maybe! Or some kind of Turkey dinner for my daughters before they take off for NEW YORK CITY!!!!! Sheesh...

We have lots of Manishewitz - Extra Heavy Malaga.
Folks who will be there are:

1.Karen
2.Ken
3.Sarah
4.Amy
5.Margot
6.Linda
7.Ilia
8.Seymore
9.Sarah
10.Melissa
11.Greg
12.Sam
others????
Maybe Philip
and????

Wedding and wedding pictures, etc...

On March 19, 2005 I married Karen Joyce Spatz, now: Karen Joyce Firestein. LOVE!!!

Pictures can be seen at:
See pictures of the weddinghere.

Ahhh... beautiful!

and so it goes

So - being disavowed by my parents is the thing. And - their karma is no longer linked to me. Some might say - "their loss" and others might say: "your/my loss". BUT - what can one do? Control is not possible. I can't control and I can't be controlled. Nor should "control" rule, so to speak. May freedom reign.

Still - can't help but feel sad sometimes since there have been so many lies that I have been told and that I have almost believed. And - so many lies that people say which they themselves believe.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

Fortunately, the world is a good place. It is wonderful.

Fortunately, I have a good life and a good wife. She, Karen, is wonderful. And good.

And - fortunately, I have had wonderful and terrific and good children who I dearly love. They are two of the most wonderful young women I can imagine! I hope for and wish them the most happiness, always. I worry about them, sometimes. I am anxious about how things are going in their lives and in their work - but I look forward to better times, always.

Optimism is the way. The practice is to be mindful of the moment and to notice how the moment is usually very, very good!

AH... LOVE!