It’s not much. But, we expect that the water we drink be safe.
Oh, I know- many of you have given up on that. You carry plastic bottles of water. Because you fear the quality of the water being provided.
I know. The government is shut down. And, I have no idea if this ridiculous situation will last two more days, two more weeks, or longer. (I am betting if it goes longer than 2 weeks, there will be a veto override to open the USA for business.)
Right after the Iron Curtain fell, I found myself attending another annual international medical conference, this time in Vienna. (I won’t bother going into how ‘well’ the Viennese treated me- NOT.)
Some of you might have never heard of this method. We’ve been using something similar (but without the catchy title!) for years, in concert with using the Adizes system to monitor where our clients currently are. I ran across this new terminology and spread the news among my fellow adjuvants. Just so you know, we didn’t coin the phraseology, James Ashford did.
Merry Christmas.
Now that we got that out of the way (I could have wished you season’s greetings, just to piss off TheDonald, TheRyan, and MitchWhatMeWorry. But, I’ve never done that. Because I am wishing you greetings for your holiday.)
Continue reading So, this is Christmas
There are some special characteristics that leaders possess, things we can’t always see in their pedigree. But, we see them clearly when we watch them interact with others.
The other day I was telling a joke that I learned some 6 decades ago. It was told to me by my neighbor. And, I realized that joke resonated with me because it explains why and how we provide our services.
Continue reading Walk On Water?
Let me state unequivocally that I have a bias in this fight. I am the product of 9 years of yeshiva. And, while I was probably NOT the favorite of my teachers (now THERE’s an understatement), I did receive an outstanding education. Not that they would have known that, since I spent more time out in the hall during my first years at HANC than I did in the classroom. (They stopped sending me to the hall by the middle of my third year there.) But, I did read religiously (pun intended) all the textbooks, handouts, etc. that were provided to the classes.
Continue reading Regulation Gone Amok?
Back when I first began visiting Yerushalayim (and Israel), I would always get excited when we passed the village of Abu Ghosh. Because it meant we were almost in Jerusalem, my place of choice when visiting Israel. (I have generally stayed in the same hotel for all these years, too.)
Continue reading The Hill of the Forests (קרית יערים)
A minor fast day.
“What’s that?”, you ask? We Jews have two major fast days. The first one you’ve all heard about- Yom Kipur, the Day of Atonement. This is one decreed by the Supreme Being, where we request divine forgiveness for the things that we didn’t quite perform well over the past year. The commandment is to fast from dusk on one day to 40 minutes after day’s end the next day. (Yes, that means at least 25 hours without food or water.)
