Excerpts…(from the scattered notes found in a steamer trunk on the veranda of the estate of the very Auguste Rangier, one of the last of the...
Wandering through the Words (Wandering through the Worlds? Wondering through the Words?)So yesterday Yoel said something about the way that he paints. He said he doesn't have anything in mind when he starts. And he throws...
SPILL ON THE BIKEThe other day I had a spill on my bike. It's only the third one I've had, thank God. And it was exactly the same configuration as the...
GravityElsewhere I've spoken about MTB riding on fire trails in Israel and how you learn the practice of ‘riding the ridge’ in the middle rather...
Working the LipWhen you watch pro surfing you often hear the announcers comment on how a contestant ‘really worked the lip’, or ‘mastered that bottom...
A TOY IN MY HANDSThis morning the bike felt like a toy in my hands; all light and fast and accurate and grippy and ready to jump around a little bit...
The BackstorySo I'm all about the backstory. That's my real focus. When I look at the world I want to know what's holding it up. I want to know the...
THE FAKE QUEENSo I almost brushed up against her last week when I wasn't paying attention. Mistakenly, I thought I was approaching the real queen. My...
Ants and BrachasSo if you remember we had a problem with the ants a few days ago. We got ourselves into a conundrum as to what to do if we're riding a...
Advancing BackwardsMartin Buber, I and Thou, pp. 86-87 I was reading Rabbi Kaplan the other day in his introduction to the Sefer Yetzira, and he's talking...