Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Who am I... today.

I'm -- Kenneth Firestein - a simple, very regular person. Retired from being a Librarian - in a public library, a special library, and a university library.

I'm 69.... I belong to Rotary. I volunteer w/hospice. I drive for Meals on Wheels via Rotary. I sing with the University Chorus. I am a volunteer at my synagogue as a singer/Cantor and their librarian. I've been married twice, divorced twice, and have a girlfriend for a bit over 2 years. I have two adult daughters... one lives in NYC and one in California. Both work and take care of themselves. I'm on good terms with one ex-wife and not with the other. I'm a NY Mets and NY Giants fan... hard times there. I like the Golden State Warriors. I do some blogging (unnoticed I'm sure).  I own my home (with a mortgage payment each month) and have lived in that home in Davis, CA since 1980. I went to schools in NY State and grew up in Queens, NY. Went to Bayside HS. I  like to read and science fiction is one interest in books and other media. One of my favorite books and films is: "The unbearable lightness of being". I vote each time I can. I don't think I've missed any election and now use mail-in ballots for their convenience. I like to travel and i've been to countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. I am happy for the IT/computer revolution. I'm fairly happy, overweight, caring, generally healthy, and I work out regularly. Basically, I feel I'm just a regular guy... maybe a bit more urban and liberal then some. I like museums and theater and movies - of all types. I watch a bit of tv - thanks today to tivo-devices and streaming and downloading. I like all kinds of music. I like beer, wine, and hard-liquor as well as cannabis and I've enjoyed other drugs, too. I loath the idea of being addicted and I am not. I'm Just pretty regular and normal and American.

Monday, November 26, 2018

food around the world...Weekly, daily...

click here to see: What do people eat each week?

and

click here to see What people eat each day...

click for another view...

SO interesting....

AND for numbers information Click Here.


Monday, November 12, 2018

life and chances and coices

I was thinking about my life and how it is now. Now I am in a relationship with someone who just does wonderful things all the time for others, for me, and I hope for herself. Clearly others and me have our lives made easier/nice in many, many ways.

My life has been pretty good. It is an average long life at this time and my parents and wives and children and others have been blessings - for the most part. Some of those relationships continue in various ways and some have ceased. All have been easy and difficult and some relationships were good enough! Sometimes I was good enough and sometimes I was too much of a hassle, shit, no-goodnick, or in some people's opinion - terrible. Whatever!

Good enough is what we all are to most people. To some people one of us will be plenty or perfect or the best or all I've ever wanted. Whatever.

We are all at best - good enough. The extreme of perfection or best are possibilities in moments but only in moments. Being at the extreme can only be sustained for a while and then we return to some normalcy or even to the opposite extreme. I know, I think, both extremes and today I often am fortunate to hold my tongue and actions when I am at the extreme of bad, negativity, wrong, etc. I may have learned to wait til I get some rest and some time passes and I get back to the middle area of normalcy which when I am on the negativity side of the life's continuum means I am moving towards the positive. AND when I am on the positive side of things... I think if I moderate the great joy as I express my happiness then the person to whom I express my joy is not pressured/stressed by MY moment.

Today is the day after expressing my joy was moderated and I think maybe that was good for my dear partner.

Who is my dear partner? Ah... for now an unnamed lovely women with a great smile and a great heart.

I think and hope I am lucky! In the musical Pippin: n: "It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart" YES says I.


The thing is... as said in The best exotic Marigold Hotel: ""Everything will be all right in the end. And if it's not all right, then trust me, it's not yet the end.""


I like to believe that is true and I recommend the thought to others, too. We are here NOW... It is the present - a present is the present. Eliminate in your mind regrets about the past and worries about the future and I think now is good and ok and fine! Right NOW... in the point of this MOMENT. But I am getting off my point.

My point is... I am fortunate to the max as I am in a clearly not perfect relationship. The lack of perfection is real - always for all people and everything. What is great about imperfections is with the understanding and acceptance of imperfections a person or a couple or a group then knows the directions available to them. As the Torah says: Choose life! Choose the good.

Deuteronomy 30:19

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"

YES! Do good. Do your best. Do you.