I seem to be falling behind. Yesterday was actually day 13 and I spent much of the day musing about this blog and various omer projects I am working on. Time is moving fast. So fast I got an email from a soon-to-be congregant who said “4 Weeks”. In four weeks he will be a Jew.  It is hard to keep up.

I think there have been some big insights for me coming out of writing this blog. I hope they have been helpful for you as well. Things I have liked–thinking deeply about love, chesed and the role that it plays in our lives. Thinking about kashrut as a form of discipline and restraint. Thinking about how one survives the unspeakable tragedy of the Holocaust and how that really is an intersection between Chesed and Gevurah. I have also really liked Rabbi Katy Allen’s brief meditations and photos linking the earth with the counting of the omer. It has been fun to look for signs of spring, and to watch so closely. Yesterday we saw in the Costco parking lot by their wetlands, a Canada goose sitting on her egg just at sunset.

Mamma Goose

She was flanked by two red wing blackbirds. Swimming in the water was an otter or a muskrat. You wouldn’t necessarily think that so much wildlife would be in the Costco parking lot. Yesterday I also spent at my new physicians. As part of that we talked about genetics. Always at a doctor’s but especially poignant if your father was a geneticist. DNA is the building blocks of life, the foundation. If you have the discipline, the gevurah, to look, you will see the foundation, the yesod of life. It was beautiful.