Miserere
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*This is more about healing, which is the thing I'm thinking about most.
It's understandable that this won't be for everyone. So feel free to swipe.*
It'...
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*October 2024*
In 2018, a group of Shul Orphans came together to solve the problem of
where to go for Kol Nidre services. We gathered in a rented room at...
Brilliant vintage beads and where to find them
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[image: Brilliant vintage beads and where to find them]
One of my favourite style tricks right now is to bring on the beads. To
be clear, we are not ta...
Hestia at 61 - warning: contains Gaelic
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Back in 2012 - those halcyon days where nobody dreamed that a cough in the
supermarket could shut down your internal organs and have you hospitalised
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Grandma Pat and Trixie
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Here is my latest shoot for Advanced Pets featuring the always gorgeous
Grandma Pat and Trixie. By the way I just started selling prints and totes
on Soc...
'Heracles' in the Drawing Room
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'Heracles', oil and acrylic on canvas by Orr Máté
*Some time ago, most likely before the end of 2019, although the actual
date is of little importance, w...
Just a week
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A week ago, I was feeling anxious. I know that's not rare. Like so many
other people across the world, trapped at home, cut off from our usual
lives, my...
It is only a matter of time
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On September 12th of 2011, the *New York Times* published an article by Dr.
Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic
aspects ...
Social media extremism
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I've been noticing a phenomenon over the past few years wherein the surest
way to start a flame war in any sort of online forum is to express not an
extrem...
Cherry Cheers
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It is raining in Seattle. A phenomenon for me. A routine for the locals.
Yesterday we saw the pink and white clouds of cherry blossoms floating
along the l...
Alternative Schools
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/
*“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So t...
Hello..... is anybody out there?
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I was sitting in bed this morning trying to learn Chinese when I thought
about this blog. That may seem like an odd connection, but sometimes when
your min...
Dancing barefoot.....
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Back from a winter soujourn in France, I found I had far too many things
going on in one week..... why does it always happen like that? Two birthday
parti...
In praise of...Dermot O'Leary
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So, somewhere during the past 3-4 years it turns out that I became
middle-aged. I listen to Radio 2. Mostly on a Saturday. But guess what -
R2 on a Satu...
Happy New Year! I love cheese straws too, but have never made them.
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