Monday, April 03, 2006

A Poem By Howie Goldsmith

“Riding4Refom”
I'm tired of beige. Everywhere I look
in this city, I see beige.
Beige buildings, beige stores, beige people, beige mountains, beige
Judaism,
beige,
beige,
beige.
At this point in the year, with new
rain, and new cold,
I feel kind of beige.
But then I descend from these mountains, from this Holy Beigeness
through steep mountains covered in
green which give way to the lush plain below.
There is no beige in the valley.
Green, red flowers, blue oceans, purple, yellow wheat, colorful people, colorful stores,
colorful Israel. My
Zionism returns, my
feelings for The Land returns. I'm
inspired by the colorful
Reform Chalutzim who strive to establish a Jewish State
for all Jews,
of all streams,
of all colors. Filled with color I
climb back to Jerusalem
the hidden hues beneath the beige pop...
the possibilities. One day,
we Reform Jews will cover
the beige Judaism of Jerusalem in a
coat of many colors.
- Howie Goldsmith, Jerusalem – 2 April 2006

3 comments:

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I just don't understand the mindset that makes people flip out when they see other people's dishes in the sink. Dallas is the more sensible husband, the one that makes soup for you when you're sick.

People are generally irritating to begin with but that's just my opinion. Yet, is that actually the case? Having the water at his fingertips for over a decade has actually made him lower his priority on getting into it. Cleaning one's mask tends to emphasize how far from shore you are, even if the water is fairly shallow, and of course, you're then blind to what's beneath you-and one's imagination starts churning.

As you know, our server fucked up and instead of dedicating countless hours to trying to fix the problem; we drank. Anyway, instead of just focusing on the negative and flow from that, I'm going to say what happened today.

So how the fuck am I supposed to tell this girl that I cant handle seeing her when apparently everyone else can..?

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