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Post by savtele on Mar 8, 2017 2:48:01 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Angelika
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting - you are welcome to do that but you are also welcome to chime in!
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Post by savtele on Mar 8, 2017 3:06:46 GMT -5
Boker Tov All! It's almost midnight, I just finished reading today's posts - interesting. I'm a big "one pot dish" cook - the more stuff I can throw into the same pot, the happier I will be (and the less cleaning up!)
Wednesday - & I will be at the Antique Mall till 5 PM again. I'm enjoying my work there & the people are fun. Most of the other people who work there are vendors. I'm one of only 2 who is not.
We've talked a lot about our families lately - the craziness that makes us who we are - and how we seem to have landed in the mental/emotional state where we find ourselves.
Then there's the world history that shaped us - if there were only 1 thing that I could choose that was a coming-of-age-as-a-citizen moment for me, I would have to say, it was Watergate/Nixon's resignation. All the lead-up to it, starting with VP Agnew's resignation for Tax Evasion. Sometimes now, I turn on the TV, I feel like I'm in a time warp!
Do you have such a moment in history? One that stays with you - and that you measure other moments in history by?
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Post by brgmsn on Mar 8, 2017 9:30:23 GMT -5
Right now what is defining me is the JCC bomb threats. Today was our 4th one. My grandbabies go to the daycare and my daughter works there. This is personal. This hits home. The fact that these people feel so comfortable doing this over and over and hearing NOTHING from our "president" says volumes to me. That this can continue with impunity from those in power says exactly what my babies' lives are worth.
The good news? The community is rallying together. Our Muslim community and our Black community have held rallies, prayer vigils, sent lovely cards and letters to our children and staff. Sad it took this, but it's a joy to see.
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Post by lee058 on Mar 8, 2017 9:57:47 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well. Late this afternoon, I am going to see my endocrinologist, and hopefully my blood tests and everything else will be fine.
Important history moment: The first moon landing in 1969. It made a huge impression on me. I remember going outside with my dad to look at the moon that night in July, and we marveled that right that very minute (!!!) there were people up there.
There are lots more, but that is the one that jumped to my mind.
Have a peaceful rest of the day, Lee
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Post by hollygail on Mar 8, 2017 10:12:47 GMT -5
1. Frieda: the 8 oz size can of tomato sauce is approximately 3" tall. The 15 oz size is approximately 5 or maybe 6 inches tall. The 28 or 32 oz size is about 4" in diameter (maybe more) and about 6" tall. Does that help?
2. Moments in "history"...
A. In 1957, there were newspaper stories about Five and Dimes in the South that were refusing service at their lunch counters to Negroes (the polite word in use at the time). During the summer, my parents had an errand to run; my sister and I were in the back seat of the car. The car was parked in the parking lot of a shopping center. DS and I were hot and wanted to go get some ice cream. There was a Woolworth's in the shopping center, so that's where we headed. As we approached the door, I said to her, If we had dark skin and were in the South, they wouldn't serve us. She looked at me for a second, told me I was right, and we walked past the store to another (more expensive) store for our ice cream. That was my first time to "speak up" in a political situation.
B. In high school and college, I was active in the peace movement and in the civil rights movement. As a college freshman, I took part in a sit-in demonstration at the World's Fair (in Queens, NY). I had a sign (about civil rights) pinned (with either peace sign buttons or something similar) to my coat. When we were arrested and brought to the police station, on the stairway into the building was this one cop who was removing our signs (he sort of ripped them off our coats, although I have to say he was not a bully about it; it was more like he pulled them off. My favorite peace sign button went with my sign and I realized I was never going to get it back. Another "moment" for me. Making a sacrifice for what I believed in was going to be "part of life."
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Post by happysavta on Mar 8, 2017 13:26:04 GMT -5
Defining moment for me was when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. We couldn't believe it. We lived in the illusion that assassinations were not part of the political process in the United States. That happened in South America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe but surely not in our democracy, not under our Bill of Rights and our Constitution. The idealism of that era, personified by flower children and folk songs was shattered and we were shattered. Watching the funeral was heart wrenching, the riderless horse, boots backward in the stirrups, the little boy saluting his father's casket. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King reinforced our loss innocence. We were reading Catcher in the Rye in school and realizing it wasn't just fiction.
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Post by happysavta on Mar 8, 2017 14:36:50 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Chaverot,
Yesterday, and every Tuesday, is senior discount day at Ross Dress for Less. I bought a bathing suit. (That is a sign of intent to go to the pool for exercise. Of course, it will take a lot of kvetching until I actually dip a toe in the water. But, listen, exercise is a process. It starts by imagining yourself in motion. Putting on a bathing suit will help me take it from mulling, thinking it over, weighing the pros and cons to actually getting to the pool.)
Also I bought myself a bottle of Gardenia perfume by Elizabeth Taylor and am using it daily, not for special occasions.
I've been taking a 10-15 minute walk every day since Saturday. It hurts the muscles in my outer thighs after 5 min. I think about it in the morning, but I don't get to it until bedtime.
I'm noticing that my balance is sometimes off. My cousin Giza, who is 80, fell recently and broke her hip. She was hospitalized for quite a while. Then she got out, went home and fell again. She broke her collarbone and is back in the hospital. She had been having problems with her balance. I will have to try to avoid going down the same path.
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Post by gazelle18 on Mar 8, 2017 16:06:57 GMT -5
A defining moment in history for me was watching the 1968 democratic national convention on tv, the one where the Chicago 8 (I think that's what they were called) led major anti war protests. i remember just being amazed that protests could have such a loud and lasting effect.
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Post by hollygail on Mar 8, 2017 21:51:50 GMT -5
I wrote another post from the office (I took a break) but when I hit "post quick reply" I got an error message that GDT was having trouble and then the site wouldn't come back up for me... Suffice it to say that I remember all the events the rest of you ladies wrote about and most of them (less the Nixon resignation) had a similar effect on me too. (As for Nixon's resignation, I was somewhat jaded about the then current political atmosphere in the US and his resignation was one of those "well, what else do you expect?" kinds of things... LateDH and I didn't own a TV but he went out and rented one to watch the 1968 (69?) convention. We were surprised and delighted that the TV news stations were willing to show the demonstrations (and at least some of the police brutality).
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Post by peachymom1 on Mar 9, 2017 0:10:01 GMT -5
The first thing that really made me sit up and take notice was Nixon's resignation in 1974. I was in summer school, taking required classes so I could take electives during the year. The principal announced it over the PA in the classrooms. I had just turned 12 and was old enough to be kind of aware of Watergate and all, but the POTUS resigning was a shocker to all of us.
Years later, when I took political science in college, the professor gave us a fun way to remember the Amendments. Referring to Nixon's resignation, he said that the 25th Amendment gave us a Ford for Christmas!
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