
The small building dates to 1888, and the apartment block was built around it in the 1920’s by the local Jewish community both to shelter the synagogue and to support building the community.

The small building dates to 1888, and the apartment block was built around it in the 1920’s by the local Jewish community both to shelter the synagogue and to support building the community.
What positive emotion do you feel most often?
Contentment: the most sustainable of feelings.


once stately mansion,
weedy & paint peeling:
entropy incarnate.

a shaft of sunlight
sneaks past a blocking cloud:
summer sunset.






bounded by city:
look up to boundless sky,
& the mind soars.

Create an emergency preparedness plan.
For Zombies: walk briskly.
For Global Thermonuclear War: Find a nice place near a likely ground zero for instantaneous demolecularization — so as to avoid slow death by radiation sickness & nuclear winter starvation.
For Climate Change: carry a Nomex suit, a rubber raft, and an umbrella.
For aliens: assume Roddenberry was right until proven otherwise. (If Hawking was right, we’re screwed anyway.)
For all else: maintain a peppy, can-do attitude.