of the Moishe House...
has alive fertility in the soil right now,
Spring time is approaching in San Francisco for all to drift around on the scent of...
most likely between rains and overcast weather,
and thoughts and plans of an adventurous day... what are you going to do with you one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver's words replay every so often in my thoughts...
Today, I am going to share the glory of a warm sunny day with the wind, and my friend... down the coast and through landscapes that illicit memories of good times for each of us, as we travel the coastline of our lives, into and out of shorelines, rocky outcroppings, sea bird nests, tidepools... alive alive...
this is the way I want to live my one wild and precious life...
alive...
It occurs to me that there are many avenues and seemingly unmarked paths to take...
what is it to be my one wild, precious and authentic self...
creating and processing momentary existence... daily...
sounds freeing, good and trusting...
in both myself, and my fellow human-kind, in the greater ecosystem and all who share in the world we know, and all those that we don't know about -as humans...
What a gift to share, a fresh breath, ocean breeze and air, laughter, love and tears, and some words with the coastline...
Monday, March 3, 2008
Condolences to Moishe and his family
Dear all,
The Moishe House community was shaken by the terrible news we heard last week about the tragic death of Moishe's son Ari. All of us at MH London send our sincerest condolences to Moishe and his faimly and wish them much comfort in their time of grief.
It is hard to know what to say in the face of such a terrible tragedy and as a member of MH London I am not sure how I can respond. Hearing of such news my first reaction was to think of the fragility of life and often the leap of faith that it requires to invest in somebody and something when you dont know how long it will be around or when it might be taken from you.
But such an effort, a leap of faith is absolutely required if we are to make something of life, create positive life experiences and bringing them to others. I suppose that is how MH members can respond, to continue to create such life experiences and make the most of life in the face of such fragilities.
If we can now reaffirm our commitment to doing this through MH then perhaps we will have contributed to creating a fitting legacy and memorial to the life of Moishe's son. We can but try.
May Ari's life be an inspiration to us all and may his soul rest in peace
A confused, powerless and shaken Gideon Rabinowitz
The Moishe House community was shaken by the terrible news we heard last week about the tragic death of Moishe's son Ari. All of us at MH London send our sincerest condolences to Moishe and his faimly and wish them much comfort in their time of grief.
It is hard to know what to say in the face of such a terrible tragedy and as a member of MH London I am not sure how I can respond. Hearing of such news my first reaction was to think of the fragility of life and often the leap of faith that it requires to invest in somebody and something when you dont know how long it will be around or when it might be taken from you.
But such an effort, a leap of faith is absolutely required if we are to make something of life, create positive life experiences and bringing them to others. I suppose that is how MH members can respond, to continue to create such life experiences and make the most of life in the face of such fragilities.
If we can now reaffirm our commitment to doing this through MH then perhaps we will have contributed to creating a fitting legacy and memorial to the life of Moishe's son. We can but try.
May Ari's life be an inspiration to us all and may his soul rest in peace
A confused, powerless and shaken Gideon Rabinowitz
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Margo from MHSS
February was a pretty relaxed month. I think my favorite event was our shabbat services and dinner for this month. I really enjoy singing kabbalat shabbat, and it feels really good in my own home surrounded by friends. Dinner was delicious as usual. And it was even nicer to have people hang around 'till the early hours of the morning sharing stories. This month already is off to a great start with a homebrewing beer event. Hopefully before pesach we will have our bottling party. And who can forget that Purim is almost here? Definitely a cause of happiness.
Keeping it short and sweet, until next month.
Keeping it short and sweet, until next month.
Rachael MHSS for Feb.
4 glorious weeks + 1 glorious day of February....
Reunited with an few old friends, had a FANTASTIC full house for Shabbat (with lots of newbies!), & my amazing, life-strengthening Nature's Classroom experience has been officially fully integrated into MH & the life for which I left NC....
Also got mucho donations of fabulous stuff we can absolutely use here at MHSS from semi-relatives who are moving, have a kosher house, & wanted to give to our community!: extra blankets for our multitude of guests (come visit! you won't be cold!), mugs (we can now drink our hot tea properly -- though this eliminates the extra-fun challenge of drinking hot tea out of a spaghetti sauce jar), massive amounts of bowls & plasticware (please G-d, no more serving salad in that hugely & atrociously orange Halloween bowl! We have REAL bowls now!), aprons (who knew *they'd* be a hit?, yet which have already come in handy: Texas Becca lit up in excitement to learn we had an apron she could wear while deep-frying Oreos), pots & pans (so we'll be able to cook even after Margo & Noam move out), baking goodies (Julie's reaction to our new rolling pin was precious -- something to be experienced), & other excellent treasures. I love family. :)
Always growing & expanding -- it's amazing how different things feel from when I first moved in -- how "at home" everything is, how much everyone belongs....
i <3 mh
Reunited with an few old friends, had a FANTASTIC full house for Shabbat (with lots of newbies!), & my amazing, life-strengthening Nature's Classroom experience has been officially fully integrated into MH & the life for which I left NC....
Also got mucho donations of fabulous stuff we can absolutely use here at MHSS from semi-relatives who are moving, have a kosher house, & wanted to give to our community!: extra blankets for our multitude of guests (come visit! you won't be cold!), mugs (we can now drink our hot tea properly -- though this eliminates the extra-fun challenge of drinking hot tea out of a spaghetti sauce jar), massive amounts of bowls & plasticware (please G-d, no more serving salad in that hugely & atrociously orange Halloween bowl! We have REAL bowls now!), aprons (who knew *they'd* be a hit?, yet which have already come in handy: Texas Becca lit up in excitement to learn we had an apron she could wear while deep-frying Oreos), pots & pans (so we'll be able to cook even after Margo & Noam move out), baking goodies (Julie's reaction to our new rolling pin was precious -- something to be experienced), & other excellent treasures. I love family. :)
Always growing & expanding -- it's amazing how different things feel from when I first moved in -- how "at home" everything is, how much everyone belongs....
i <3 mh
Ilana SS MHCHI
Hello,
I write today to say that the past month has been quite a time! But besides that YESTERDAY was the shizzy. We did a little something called the Chi-Diterod. It was the third annual urban iditerod in Chicago. The organizers all seemed like people that had been to the Burning Man festival and who heard some ideas from others from cities like San Francisco where they have been doing this for a long time! Moishe House volunteered at one of the stations during the race and we helped direct traffic and man the station as groups showed up throughout the day. This race was based in the goal of collecting canned food to give to the Chicago Food Depository and people grouped together and thought of hilarious themes to dress up as and run all over the city. It was so super hilarious. We had such a great time seeing all the costumes and chucking it up with everyone! I was happy to be out doing this and years past, I have showed up to the scene too late to catch anything. We had a blast! Stay tuned for pictures and captions. It was great.
On another note, it was a tragic thing that happened to Morris' son, Ari and I would like to once again, send out my condolences to the family and to say that my thoughts are with you all at this time.
Until next time,
Ilana
I write today to say that the past month has been quite a time! But besides that YESTERDAY was the shizzy. We did a little something called the Chi-Diterod. It was the third annual urban iditerod in Chicago. The organizers all seemed like people that had been to the Burning Man festival and who heard some ideas from others from cities like San Francisco where they have been doing this for a long time! Moishe House volunteered at one of the stations during the race and we helped direct traffic and man the station as groups showed up throughout the day. This race was based in the goal of collecting canned food to give to the Chicago Food Depository and people grouped together and thought of hilarious themes to dress up as and run all over the city. It was so super hilarious. We had such a great time seeing all the costumes and chucking it up with everyone! I was happy to be out doing this and years past, I have showed up to the scene too late to catch anything. We had a blast! Stay tuned for pictures and captions. It was great.
On another note, it was a tragic thing that happened to Morris' son, Ari and I would like to once again, send out my condolences to the family and to say that my thoughts are with you all at this time.
Until next time,
Ilana
Great Start
Hey Ya'all
With a ew year comes a new housemate
Mr Yoni Bass, a moishe house regular last year has joined us for what promises to be an amazing year. To think this time last year the idea of Moishe House was still fresh and uncertain in the minds of the Jewish community in Cape Town. Now, one might call it an institution.
Anyway so the year has started off flying. A number of people returning from extended time overseas, have joined us for moishe house activities and it's been great to see Moishe old timers and Moishe rookies rocking it at the house.
My highlight so far has been our poker night. I hadn't played in ages and loved it. I got a real sense that it may develop into something that happens more often at Moishe House Cape Town (you know how us Jews can gamble).
Anyway the Dragon (Daniel Barnett) is calling me. More next time on why his name is the Dragon if I've never blogged about it before.
As we say in South Africa
Mooi Moishe
With a ew year comes a new housemate
Mr Yoni Bass, a moishe house regular last year has joined us for what promises to be an amazing year. To think this time last year the idea of Moishe House was still fresh and uncertain in the minds of the Jewish community in Cape Town. Now, one might call it an institution.
Anyway so the year has started off flying. A number of people returning from extended time overseas, have joined us for moishe house activities and it's been great to see Moishe old timers and Moishe rookies rocking it at the house.
My highlight so far has been our poker night. I hadn't played in ages and loved it. I got a real sense that it may develop into something that happens more often at Moishe House Cape Town (you know how us Jews can gamble).
Anyway the Dragon (Daniel Barnett) is calling me. More next time on why his name is the Dragon if I've never blogged about it before.
As we say in South Africa
Mooi Moishe
March 2nd isn't February 2nd
February 2nd, Groundhog Day, is not the same as March 2nd, which is simply March 2nd. That's why this year I'm going to try and make March 2nd a really special day. I'm going to go coach little league baseball out in the sunshine on a beautiful San Francisco day. As I recall, Puxatony Phil gave us some bad news in that he saw his own shadow, indicating 6 more weeks of winter. Well today I'm not going to give any of the 13-14 year olds on my team any bad news. I'm not going to say, "Paul, hope you're ready to sit on the bench all year," or "Danny, I wouldn't get your hopes up for improving." It's going to be all encouraging, and maybe a little confusing for the kids. If I hit a fly ball and a kid drops it, instead of telling him to run a bunch of laps I'll simply say, "hey, it's ok, I like your t-shirt." I'm sure he'll catch the next one. Or maybe not. But at least he will know that I appreciate his sense of style, and that's really important in baseball.
I wish a happy March to everyone, and here's to 6 less weeks of winter...
I wish a happy March to everyone, and here's to 6 less weeks of winter...
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