Just Another Day of News
When I took my usual morning look at the headlines on my homepage, I was again struck by the awesome and absurd mélange of news. Imagine an article about the possibility that physicists may soon be finding the Higgs boson. If found, it would be the final link in the so-called “Standard Model.” Then in the next view was the headline about a sting operation in which a female worker at a Dunkin Donut shop in Rockaway, NJ was caught for offering her services to male clients while she was working her night shift.
While my daily contacts of news in the Yiddish realm cannot match that of either one of the attention-catching news above, there is more than enough for me. Imagine in one day of being told of an exciting club program in Minneapolis, a new gig for a Cleveland klezmer group, a Yiddish lecture in the Bronx, and getting updates of our upcoming IAYC conference.
My new toy, the iPad, is still somewhat of a “black box”. The how-to of e-mail and geo-positioning with locating of various businesses is passable, but the program for making Power Point-like demos still eludes me. So a little time is spent in trying to teach myself the “how to’s”.
Most of today will be spent with plans for this weekend’s 10th Annual Picnic in the Park for my San Mateo County Council of the Blind. It’s great with entertainment and playing bingo with large print and Braille cards.
So tell me, how are you going to make today exciting? Don’t let it be another boring and humdrum day. There is so much out there in nature, making new friends, learning new skills and most of all putting into your day a component of our beautiful mameloshn.
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