For. a while I thought the plague got you when you stopped posting to YouTube and Facebook. I'm glad you are okay. By the way I just wrote Book 1 of a 4 book series about a rabbi who leaves Ukraine to take over a Jewish community in San Francisco. Would like to get your thoughts. Later

I'm a Scrivener user and Hiba Tahir showed me a few tricks I found useful. Just so you know I found that we have parallel heritages. I am a Jew with ancestry from Kiev. Anyway, I just wanted to say hey

“When you give the best you have to someone in need,” Levine writes, “it translates into something much deeper to the receiver. It means that they are worthy.”

Levine has been thinking about that moment her entire life — not just because of what it meant to her and her mother, but because it contains a lesson that applies to so much in life.

One night, they wandered the neighborhood, knocking on doors until a neighbor answered. She immediately packed up her entire dinner table and handed it to them.

A single-minded passion might sustain you briefly, but when it flames out, as novelist and marketer Felicia C. Sullivan recommends, think of your life as a series of rooms you can dip in and out of. Build a “house of fulfillment” that can sustain you over time, bigger than any individual pursuit.

The downfall of most organizations is “widespread acceptance of the wrong idea” — misinformed, overconfident assumptions that become so familiar they go unquestioned. This applies on a personal level, too. One way to combat it: seek out, encourage, and reward dissent.