EEEK!

Forty-hours until departure - but - who's counting!!

My surprise package arrived today - a digital camera from the kids. (Thanks to you all.)

Eeeek!! More new technology to master. I've just been loading my video iPod (thanks folks for your gifts, some of which, combined, made this possible) for the past several weeks. It's now full of Israeli music of all kinds and lots of tracks of Hebrew lessons. I think about adding other things that I have listened to (opera, jazz, Frank Sinatra, pop, Enya, some country, Lucy Kaplansky, Uppity Blues Women, Dave Matthews, Louis Armstrong - and tons of American Jewish music, etc.)- that are sitting on my shelf of CD's and it somehow seems like polluting the Hebrew/Israeli music purity of the iPod. (I know there's therapy for this kind of stuff!)

The to-do list is getting shorter, things are falling off, needing to wait for the August list. An author of a time-management book suggested that we treat each day as if it were the last work day before a vacation and then we would accomplish enormous amounts of work. Well, that's great, but, oh, the tension that can be aroused!

As someone wrote me yesterday (and I quote) . . . . RELAX!

So, I will do just like the little train . . . I think I can, I think I can, I think I can . . . and then - like the Nike folks . . . Just do it!

Until next time - Adonai oz l'amo yitein - May God grant strength unto His people - Adonai yivareich et amo - May God grant His people peace.

Rabbi Heath

P.S. I hope the exclamation point on my keyboard doesn't break. What ever would I do?!?@!