360 degrees with thanks to Dave for photos
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Back Home - Re-Entry
It happens each year. Almost as soon as I start the ride home from the tikkun olam week the sun feels warmer, the sky looks bluer and the landscape appears greener. I bubble with thoughts, joy, about what an amazing place this world is and how lucky I am to be experiencing it so fully. I'm not sure why this is, but a week of exposure to less - less food, less luxury, less affluence - seems to be more. It really intensifies my sense of experience of the world around me. Is it that I have removed some clutter from my life for one week? Is it that in doing a little repair of the world I see the reality of what it could or should be? Or is it the bonds I create with others in the process of doing the work? And then all too soon - poof! - I am back to the way I was, with only the faintest recollection that there is something greater out there. With each tikkun olam trip the recalling of this joy gets clearer.
What's your experience of re-entry from the tikkun olam week back into normal life? It would be wonderful to hear from others.
What's your experience of re-entry from the tikkun olam week back into normal life? It would be wonderful to hear from others.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Tearing Down The Shed
This is the Limestone group taking down the shed in the back of the house.
I missed the first time it fell but I got it the seco This is the Limestone group taking down the shed in the back of the house.
I missed the first time it fell but I got it the second time.
I missed the first time it fell but I got it the seco This is the Limestone group taking down the shed in the back of the house.
I missed the first time it fell but I got it the second time.
Pictures
Here are some of Yonah's and Barbara's pictures from Limestone. It's more than just a good paint job.
The front porch--before the front porch--after
Ruth, Aliza,Yonah, Larry & Raymond
on the roof of the Historical Society
Rabbi on the scaffold
Emily using the chop-saw
the view from Main Street--before the view from Main Street--after
the back wall with the shed no shed--stairs instead!
The front porch--before the front porch--after
Ruth, Aliza,Yonah, Larry & Raymond
on the roof of the Historical Society
Rabbi on the scaffold
Emily using the chop-saw
the view from Main Street--before the view from Main Street--after
the back wall with the shed no shed--stairs instead!
Saturday, August 18, 2007
House Rehab in Wilkes Barre, 2007
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