Summer's end (& Sunday-Sunday posts)

When did the flowers
fall from that small tree?
I didn't see.

'Tis a sad sign of fall
But here are some recent blooms
to fend off fall's gloom
(click
to see the purple parts
of the following pic)
A final floral fling
before next spring

May it be Your will to write me in the Book of Life
so that I'll be here to cast off my coat
and enjoy the sun
and the fun
of next summer's long days' light
and short nights


My posts, Sunday, September 14-Sunday, September 21, 2008:

• Bloggers' picnic turns into YCT mini-convention :)
• Too sweet? B'nei Eidot haMizrach don't cook fruit with b'sari/meat or poultry/fleishig--or do they?
• Too salty? :) A little Mae-West-style humor--not for the kids
• So much for beged isha (a woman's garment :) A poem about a man's hat
• Excluded, as usual, but . . . (comment on Sefer Ha-Aggadah) Who took care of the kids--of the goat variety--in Noah's Ark?
  
• Bassless accusations: Re "kosher" music There they go again. :(
• Fed up, and, frankly, a bit frightened
• Of two minds on the two-state solution Palestinian population time bomb vs. Palestinian peace-partner absence, not to mention settler evictions to near-nowhere :(
• For those who think female leaders are immodest Rant against rabbinic attitudes toward women (with apologies to Ezzie, who may well agree with me more than was my original impression)
• More Mae-West-style fun A poem for people old enough to understand Mae West's jokes
  
• A serious treatment of Reform's one-day Yom Tov Check out BZ's post
  
• New siddurim/prayer books And a new vocabulary word for me
• Small donations, multiplied, yield large deductions You, too, can help a non-profit organization without breaking the bank, or, at least, without breaking it all at once. :)