She had bought the hostess an orchid plant...

because orchids never seemed to die...
they continued to bloom and 're bloom' in perpetuity...
not like people...
people just died...
they just upped and died...
and what, after all, had she been left with...
when all this 'abandonment' was said and done?
a big, fat platter of nuthin'...
That's what was left for her...
(Good for the waistline, to be sure!)
but BAD for the heart...
How would she make her way
through the tangled webs of 'capitulation' and rhetoric ?
HOW ?
and so....
she brought an orchid...
for the hostess Du jour would be able to cling to its steadfast ness....
to its 'loyalty' even....
"Enough with being left out in the cold", she thought,
as she ascended the steps of the hostess's brownstone....
Inside it would be warm and 'golden' and safe...
and it would smell of pumpkin muffins
and the fragrance of lightly 'dripped' Channel ...
mmm......she so loved NOVEMBER....

on friendship....

how can we know for certain that someone is a friend ?
that they wish us well?
that they would move far beyond
their own comfort zone
 in order to insure our well being?
is that then the criteria for 'friendship' ?
does one need to "lay down their own, actual life"
in order for "us" to feel loved and worshipped ?
is WORSHIP part of friendship ??
yikes!!
its a provocative topic..to be sure...
one with myriad levels of synchronicity
 and bio-rhythmic patterning...
how much does one need to prove in order to
earn the title of 'friend' ?
is it possible that WE have pushed the envelope a tad too far,
in our pursuit of being 'friended' ?
how can we know?
where does RECIPROCITY fit into this equation?
it's puzzling and somewhat alarming as well.....
to look back and see just HOW FAR
 we've floated from the shore...
from safety...
for there are sharks and barracuda swimming out here...
and the guppies and crabs who were once our friends...
are now simply casualties of LOVE and WAR...
groping to keep from being eating
by Magellan or some other far off, 'shore guy'...
and so it goes....
thoughts ?

ya gotta be IN it to WIN it...

I think its safe to say that,
in order to
"get the gold"...
one needs to extend themselves...
far beyond one's own, particular, comfort zone...
meaning that...
 we can EASILY be the ""ARMCHAIR Quarterbacks""...
sitting on the sidelines and making
guesstimated judgments and pronouncements, etc...
or.....
we can get out there...
on the front lines....
prepared for battle...
expecting, with every grain of our BEING...
to SUCCEED....
to WIN...
its that simple really...
and I'm not 100% certain why some of us
CAN
 and others just simply
 CAN'T...
but i do feel strongly that it is incumbent
upon those of us who possess the
 ABILITY to
 ACHIEVE GREATNESS...
to DO SO...
without guise or guile or superfluous innuendo...
okay....
that's all i got, Citizens...
read it and WEEP....:}}
SHABBAT SHALOM
xo

there were lines of people....

lines and lines around the block.....
they were clamoring to get in...
pounding their fists and punching and kicking the others standing beside them..
they were DESPERATE to get into the building...
i mean, they were beside themselves !!
and it was pouring !
and there they were..
getting drenched...
getting soaked to the bone....
just to get in !!
the 'ONE' who was purported to be in the building...
he was really supposed to be something...
they raved about his wisdom, his prophesies...
they couldn't get enough of him...
some even followed this 'swengali' around the world...
sleeping at roadside stops...
just in order to catch a 'pearl of wisdom'...
just to be in the airspace of the great GURU.....
so...
after all...
what was a little water in the face of such GODLINESS ?

energy vampires....

We've all been in situations where a person will appear...
with DARK, weird energy....
we can feel it IMMEDIATELY...no question...
and the longer that we stay in close proximity to this person...
the more we feel somehow 'raped'....invaded upon...
this 'permeation of our space', of our energetic field,
 may not come in the form of words...
these kinds of "energy vampires" can be much more subtle in their attack...
(although frankly, I'm not at all sure that they themselves are aware of how
BLACK and intrusive their energy actually is.)
the WORST thing about being attacked by an ENERGY VAMPIRE
is that they can literally ZAP one's own happy,
yellow aura...
and replace it with the 'yuckiness' that THEY HAVE TO LIVE WITH
every day....
Here is some advise on how to ward off these sabotaging creatures:
1) VERY, VERY IMPORTANT !!
    Create,
 with your 'intention',
a coating of essential TEFLON around your entire body.....
(approximately 6ft in each direction)
If you can do this well,
 (and it takes some practice),
the vampire won't even come near you to begin with,
as he will be quite repelled by the protective aura surrounding you..
**notation...the coating must surround everything...
even going upwards,
6ft from the TOP of the head .....
AND
6ft beneath the soles of the feet!
(LOL....I have this on EXCELLENT authority!)
2) Here's the thing...
these ill-wishers can be quite crafty and charming..(not always!)
be very aware of any physical or metaphysical
reactions you may experience in their presence....
ie. goose bumps, hair on arms rising, heart beat accelerated,
 or just a
feeling of malaise in their presence...
3) RUN !!!
And i do mean RUN immediately upon feeling any or all of the above !!!
PROTECT YOURSELVES.....
and your offspring !!!...

I'm wondering about Thanksgiving...

Having coming from a family where both my parents were survivors of Auschwitz, I have often
considered the meaning of this particular holiday. My parents had always told us to be very, very grateful to be in the US, as we were living in a nation of FREEDOM. And further, that we would always, somehow, take this "state of freedom and liberty" for granted. And these words stayed with me throughout my life.
So fast forward to today. My country is being governed by a president who seems rather reluctant (to put it mildly!) to give ALL of us our freedom. Or rather, to ALLOW us to continue living with our freedom.
Clearly, Mr Obama appears to be HELL BENT on the 'Muslimization' of the United States. This, unfortunately, is evident in virtually ALL of his decisions, actions, etc. With this increasingly alarming state of FLUX, I'm wondering whether THANKSGIVING need take on a different kind of meaning to us, as Jews, as citizens of the free world, etc.
One cannot help but imagine a Thanksgiving table in future years, surrounded by overly draped
women and turbaned men, smoking Hashish and the likes. Eating schwarma and other similarly
'unfamiliar' , neo-Thanksgiving foods. In this disconcerting scene, there is a DONKEY standing in the room, next to the table, and two men are carrying the carcass of a cow on a LARGE ROTISSERIE
pole.
YIKES !!
Just saying.... .

at thanksgiving...

Bad Charisma: A Fictional Memoire

we remember times past....times of another color....another texture...
black and grey....and rough to the touch....
times that were not as cozy and multitudinous as NOW...
as serene and sanguine and ORANGE as TODAY....
hence....
WE GIVE THANKS....
for upward mobility....for having kept "hope alive".....(lol)
for Diet Coke with a 'twist'...
and as the cranberries are in full bloom....
and as Macy's balloons reach crescendo in height and mass.......
and as the masses are still somewhat dumbfounded...
by our VIRTUAL Admissions.....
candidly, we move forward....
and the "Jone's" of yesteryear can keep their stock portfolios at bay...
for we are the ones bathing in a bay "of pigs"....
will Santa clause be wearing a KIPPAH as he shimmies down the
chimneys of the "utterly mortgaged" homes ?