"...taking up space, biding its time..."

Good and/or amusing things:

* Riding around at night in the sidecar of a Ural motorcycle. Although I'm still thawing out. Brrr! (Have cocoa.)
* The BYM's inordinate pleasure in being able to thwack the back of my helmet as he rode pillion (I think it was a revenge of sorts -- I usually end up inadvertently thunking the back of his during long rides, what with dozing off...)
* The guy who walked past us squawking, "No way would you ever get me to ride in one of those!"
* Nicole Pietratoni's collages. I especially liked the one (not pictured) that evoked the tooth-fairy...
* dinner with Bryce.
* Colleen LaHaise's "It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living..." (relevant to several discussions I've recently participated in on callings (and/or lack thereof)):

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow...

* And, David Clewell's "Vegetarian Physics" (in Poetry 180) -- even though I actually do like tofu...

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How I knew the concert was going to be *really* cool...

... when someone announced, "Hey, the dervishes are here!"

Another moment of moments: watching the late afternoon sun blaze through the top pane of a stained glass window as three women sang "Bright Morning Arisin'."

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Conservative Jews to Consider Ending a Ban on Same-Sex Unions and Gay Rabbis

On a far more frivolous note:
[choir director, seeing me in blue... and the rest of the altos in greens and reds]: "Check out the Christmas action...we should put you in the center."
me: "Hanukkah in the house, yo."