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Month: April 2019

A COLLECTION OF RAMBLING TRIVIA

A COLLECTION OF RAMBLING TRIVIA

I read things that strike me as interesting and save them for reasons I am not fully sure about. I have no message for you from them, but here’s a collection of a few of them. • Marriage In the Television series The Kominsky Method, staring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin, Arkin’s character delivers a talk about his wife at her funeral. It is beautiful and a total summary of my feelings about my wife Lita. Here’s what he says:…

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“TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY” – THE BURDEN OF SELF RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE

“TWO MEN WENT UP TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY” – THE BURDEN OF SELF RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ “I tell…

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