A few observations:

Resurrecting these memories reminded me of just how often people really do deliver for each other with no expectation that their effort be rewarded.  It gave me hope and the incentive to try to do the same.

I’m not a bucket list person.  Most people don’t have that luxury.  It is a privilege to enjoy the rewarding cycle of being curious, trying something new, failing a bit and succeeding.  I still want to try hard things and to finish what I’ve started.  Between about six-teen and fifty-five years old the “hard things” and the “had to” was a way of life.  Now it is a choice.  It never want to stop taking risks and trying.

I love the breaking of a glass at the celebratory end of a Jewish wedding… representative of life’s fragility and the reminder to us all to commit to pick up life’s pieces and try to create good. So, I conclude on a sobering story because life is messy and our world is a mess.  Creating the chance to say thank you is my way of picking up a few pieces of broken glass.

Finally, when did we stop putting a space between sentences?  There are some things I’m just incapable of evolving.

2010: Cecil’s Deli, A taste of home I never knew I needed
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2010: Cecil’s Deli, A taste of home I never knew I needed

Most Fridays for the last fourteen years, my husband’s last stop before heading home is to pick up one of your delicious loaves of Challah wrapped in a paper bag marked “Rosenblum” set aside for his often-harried last -minute arrival.  It is not only my favorite part of our Friday night Shabbat dinner- it weekly makes our house a home. 

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