Hi
This from my last Fortune magazine:
'Last summer Wanda Ferragamo ordered a special gift for her 22 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. The fashion-family matriarch took a plastic Weeble, the egg-shaped doll that wobbles but doesn't fall down, and had it recast as foot-tall artisinal silver statues. Hand soldered lace curled around 45 bellies. "My Dears", read the inscribed dedication, "regain your balance and cntinue straight on the path of principles and moral rectitude shown to you."
She's quiet a lady, Italian 80-year old woman who took over her husband's shoe business when he died in 1960 and built it into a multi-million dollar company.
I don't have to tell you how silly this is. I want to be able to have a dialog with you rather. Can I communicate by email? I would like to send you something every day and you reply...might even turn into a best-seller.
I don't have to tell you this (or do I?). Life is not exciting every day. Mondays are especially bad, maybe Sunday in Israel. Slowly, after years of practice, my Mondays are not as bad anymore. It's like the first ten of 30 push-ups. You resolve to weather it is based on the knowledge that a) It gets better as the week goes by, and b) it's only the first 80 or 90 years that are tough ( as Zaida used to say). It has its up moments and then down ones. Read somewhere that these are called y'mei sina and y'mei ahava, and that we grow more during y'mei sina. Makes sense, I think I'm beginning to feel it's a bit true.
The medrash says that the nachash was on a very high madrega (stood erect, spoke to Hashem) and desired Chava, which was inappropriate, therefore, he never gained what he desired and also lost what he had. I suppose they can be all up-days if you have access to powerful narcotics. It lasts as long as you have the money, aren't yet in jail and are still breathing. And- I just remembered this one by Erma Bombeck (tell you about her another time) "don't confuse fame with success; Madonna is one, Hellen Keller is the other."
This from my last Fortune magazine:
'Last summer Wanda Ferragamo ordered a special gift for her 22 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. The fashion-family matriarch took a plastic Weeble, the egg-shaped doll that wobbles but doesn't fall down, and had it recast as foot-tall artisinal silver statues. Hand soldered lace curled around 45 bellies. "My Dears", read the inscribed dedication, "regain your balance and cntinue straight on the path of principles and moral rectitude shown to you."
She's quiet a lady, Italian 80-year old woman who took over her husband's shoe business when he died in 1960 and built it into a multi-million dollar company.
I don't have to tell you how silly this is. I want to be able to have a dialog with you rather. Can I communicate by email? I would like to send you something every day and you reply...might even turn into a best-seller.
I don't have to tell you this (or do I?). Life is not exciting every day. Mondays are especially bad, maybe Sunday in Israel. Slowly, after years of practice, my Mondays are not as bad anymore. It's like the first ten of 30 push-ups. You resolve to weather it is based on the knowledge that a) It gets better as the week goes by, and b) it's only the first 80 or 90 years that are tough ( as Zaida used to say). It has its up moments and then down ones. Read somewhere that these are called y'mei sina and y'mei ahava, and that we grow more during y'mei sina. Makes sense, I think I'm beginning to feel it's a bit true.
The medrash says that the nachash was on a very high madrega (stood erect, spoke to Hashem) and desired Chava, which was inappropriate, therefore, he never gained what he desired and also lost what he had. I suppose they can be all up-days if you have access to powerful narcotics. It lasts as long as you have the money, aren't yet in jail and are still breathing. And- I just remembered this one by Erma Bombeck (tell you about her another time) "don't confuse fame with success; Madonna is one, Hellen Keller is the other."
So is all of this really terrible? Some of it? Which part? I love you very much and would love to help you somehow; can I? I really like communicating with you, does this work? Hoping yes and to hear from you soon,
Luv
Your Abba
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