Independence Day | Independence Day
Apr.17.2013
On the eve of Israel Independence Day we were a group of 15 friends at our house sitting around talking, eating and laughing; it wasn’t an ordinary party and I would like to explain.
Like the American 4th of July, Independence Day in Israel is a great day of celebration and ...
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Sep.15.2012
Photo: Movie poster, from its Wikipedia site
See this movie on cable for the story, the emotion, the great framed shots, the special effects, and the film nostalgia. It pays homage, in ways small and large, to the following films:
--E.T.
--Close Encounters
--The Thing...
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Jul.04.2012
Fireworks last night in Richmond, which sponsors a convivial gathering every July third. There’s a great view of the display from the lawn across from my apartment. A cover-band version of “Street Fighting Man” wafted through the window, then an announcer’s voice saying, “Fireworks in fifteen...
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Jul.04.2012
Living the life. Writing. Reading. Working. Socializing. Celebrating.
Thinking about work awoke realizations about how my life reflects that work nature. Get on that tread mill, go, go, go. But matters should be noticed and celebrated.
So I've slowed while doing more. Wrote 2,000...
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Jul.04.2012
I often wonder whether or not the Founding Fathers had fireworks to celebrate the first 4th of July after they declared this country free of British rule and an independent country. Probably not. We do celebrate this day of independence from foreign rule and fireworks are the usual visual...
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Jan.04.2012
If a nation were a person, then how would she deal with freedom? The question of freedom has become exceedingly complex politically – although it always was philosophically – because even issues outside the realm of social and armed conflict have become politicised. Is political independence the...
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Jul.04.2011
Here in Richmond, California, we have our official Independence Day fireworks on the 3rd of July, which I like. Not too many people, not as many drunks on the road as on the 4th. As it happens, I live on the harbor where the fireworks barge is anchored, so it as easy thing to stroll out onto the...
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Jul.03.2011
As premature booms and crackles are heard in the distancefrom those that can’t wait another twenty-four hoursto blow something up,I hear the giggling of teenagers underneath the rustling nylonof a tent that has hidden in the garage in its convenient stuff sack.The drone...
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Jul.03.2011
So much going on here, gang. Fluffy and I are celebrating our 5th anniversary!
She first wandered onto our front porch back in Easton, PA, when Mike and I were renting-to-own that crazy old house on W. Nesquehoning Street. (Who could forget a street name like that? More still -- who could spell...
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Jul.01.2011
image via familyvacationcritic.com
I talked to my old friend, Eric Taylor, musician and songwriter extraordinaire. He lives in Texas, the current epicenter of a major drought and hundred-plus temperatures, and the whole damn place is now a tinderbox.
We all want to pop a few tops, 'cue some steaks...
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