Hey Moishe world
This is Alan in Silver Spring Maryland, reporting to your from my hectic life. Besides for the fall holidays which currently surround and vex me, and preparing for my upcoming travels which will take me away from MHSS for a long time, I have...
+ moving within the house, putting much of my belongings in storage
+ helping old friends moving back to Maryland
+ getting to and from the places I will be celebrating Sukkot and Shemini Atseret
+ doctors appointments galore (she's worried about my blood pressure)
+ my 9-5 job
+ house event planning!
+ house cleaning!
+ accomodating and welcoming our newest Moishketeer, Benjamin
+ attending to social obligations
+ setting up the house Sukkah and harvesting fresh bamboo for the roofing Schach
+ and more and more and more.
Sometimes I like to reflect upon my life and realize I truly have only two speeds -- rushed, and sedentary. It's always either friday afternoon preparing for a big Shabbat dinner, or it's sunday morning and I can sleep forever. Maybe this is why my blood pressure is so high.
My favorite MHSS event of the past few weeks was when we sat down with pizza and fries (hectically-acquired, of course) and 15 friends and community members to watch 25th Hour, one of my favorite movies. Unlike my life, it's a slowly-unfolding, atmospheric film, almost a mediation. It's particularly good for the High Holiday season because it's about facing the consequences of your actions. It also takes place in my hometown of New York, a few months after the September 11th attacks, which hover about in the background of the story of Monty Brogan's (Ed Norton) last day before heading off to prison for seven years on drug charges.
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