Author: seanv2
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“But since I was the only one who could do it, I tried my best.”
Extremely moving article in the New York Times today about Max Fuchs, the man who was the cantor at the first Sabbath service in Germany since Hitler came to power. “We bring you now a special broadcast of historic significance: The first Jewish religious service broadcast from Germany since the advent of Hitler.” Mr. Fuchs,…
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hoshannah starts tonight, and E and I will be celebrating it in our home. Tomorrow, we’ll be going to services at the Jewish Center at Georgetown. Much discussion went into where we’d be going for these services. In years past, E has gone to a more conservative congregation, one that has a mehitzah. This…
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Friday Inspiration
This will be the second weekend in a row that I am not running. I am going crazy here! And after a couple of days of the pain in my foot feeling better, it is definitely feeling worse today. Great. I think I am out of comission until Tuesday, but while I go stir crazy,…
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Introductions
As our story begins your narrator, me, the Ger, is a thirty four year old man raised in a reasonably observant Irish Catholic home. The Ger was confirmed in the Catholic Church and then basically never went to church again. For years he wasn’t very religious at all. At times, he was downright hostile to…
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Introducing the Ger
As our story begins your narrator, me, the Ger, is a thirty four year old man raised in a reasonably observant Irish Catholic home. The Ger was confirmed in the Catholic Church and then basically never went to church again. For years he wasn’t very religious at all. At times, he was downright hostile to…
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Stir Crazy
I am trying to be a good boy and listen to the doctor. I haven’t run now in six day, and I am losing my mind. It is one thing to not get a run in because you’re too busy, that is frustrating, but to not get a run in because you’re injured is a…
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Injury Update and Weekly Totals
So, doctors appointment this morning, and officially, I have tendinitis in my left foot. Yes! No stress fracture! He wants me to take a week off and see him again. We’ll see about that, I’ll take at least the next couple of days off and then see how I feel. Anyway, weekly totals were: 16.5…
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Injured?
So, the last couple of days the top of my left foot has hurt while I ran, this morning, it hurt when I woke up. I’m hoping this is nothing, but I worry I have once again made a rookie mistake of going too hard too fast. Best case scenario is I am a wimp…
Milo and the Calf 