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<blockquote data-quote="200Meters" data-source="post: 755394" data-attributes="member: 23727"><p>Hey folks...</p><p></p><p>I apologize for doing the incommunicado thing for the last week+ but I am getting over a rather nasty bout of sinusitis. I was home from the office Tuesday-Thursday last week with an on-and-off fever (up to 38.5C/101.3F) at one point. (Notice how I'm not saying that I was home from <em>work</em>. I put in three full days of work, all while sitting up in bed.) I went to see the doctor last Wednesday evening. I am now (back at the office, as of Sunday) on Augmentin. Those damned horse pills are taking care of my sinuses very nicely but are also using my digestive tract as their personal punching bag. I'm on probiotics, which are countering some of the untoward side effects of the Augmentin. I didn't go to synagogue last Friday night/Saturday; Mrs. 200Meters refused to let me out of the house.</p><p></p><p>Let's see...</p><p></p><p>Youngest is still at the prison where has been, the one we visited him at two weeks ago. He has, however, been moved to the wing for post-trial prisoners who have already been sentenced. He is in a cell with 5 other such prisoners. We will go see him again this Friday. He seems to be in good enough spirits.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You would thing that the bits of cloth that we cover our heads with (I'm currently wearing a big, round, brightly-colored knitted <a href="http://www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm#Yarmulke" target="_blank"><em><u>kippa</u></em></a>; Mrs. 200Meters usually wears some kind of beret when we are out & about) should mean something, that said bit of cloth should indicate that the Jewish person wearing it is more morally and ethically minded, more spiritual, more conscious of G-d and His presence in our lives. Those bits of cloth <em>should</em> mean those things but all too often they're just rags to mop up the moral/spiritual/ethical detritus of our lives. When Mrs. 200Meters & I first started visiting Youngest in the hoosegow, I would look at the other visiting families and think how we weren't like them. But I realize that's just my being a snob. That's a rationalizing lie that I tell myself. We are exactly like them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>'Cause we had leftover cornflakes that nobody seemed to be eating.</p><p></p><p>The muffins came out really good.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Youngest certainly has infinite value within him,of that I have no doubt. He just has to recognize it and claim it. Ditto for Oldest.</p><p></p><p>Cape Town, South Africa, is a spectacularly beautiful city. But when the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias first sailed around the the southwest corner of Africa in 1488 and discovered the sea route to India, he was actually blown around the cape in a storm. When he eventually got to back to Lisbon, he told King John II that he had taken the liberty of naming the cape, the Cape of Storms. The king vetoed that and being the king, renamed it the Cape of Good Hope. Dias saw the present storms. But the king could look past the gloomy present toward the good hope of a bright future. Mrs. 200Meters & I keep praying (literally!) that like the king, Youngest will look past his gloomy present and understand that he can have a bright future.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't know that you are lost at all. You are wandering. But as J.R.R. Tolkien writes: "Not all those who wander are lost / The old that is strong does not wither / Deep roots are not reached by the frost." Do not allow your present wandering to mislead you into thinking that you are lost. You are not. The passing frost cannot reach your deep roots.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You will be surprised how much you have left.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I couldn't do this without Mrs. 200Meters. We couldn't do this without each other. Our marriage is the axis, the center, around which everything else in my life revolves. We have been married for over 31 years. She is the blessing of my life.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good for him, and for you. May G-d bless him that he continues to grow.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is all we can do. The rest is up to G-d.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="200Meters, post: 755394, member: 23727"] Hey folks... I apologize for doing the incommunicado thing for the last week+ but I am getting over a rather nasty bout of sinusitis. I was home from the office Tuesday-Thursday last week with an on-and-off fever (up to 38.5C/101.3F) at one point. (Notice how I'm not saying that I was home from [I]work[/I]. I put in three full days of work, all while sitting up in bed.) I went to see the doctor last Wednesday evening. I am now (back at the office, as of Sunday) on Augmentin. Those damned horse pills are taking care of my sinuses very nicely but are also using my digestive tract as their personal punching bag. I'm on probiotics, which are countering some of the untoward side effects of the Augmentin. I didn't go to synagogue last Friday night/Saturday; Mrs. 200Meters refused to let me out of the house. Let's see... Youngest is still at the prison where has been, the one we visited him at two weeks ago. He has, however, been moved to the wing for post-trial prisoners who have already been sentenced. He is in a cell with 5 other such prisoners. We will go see him again this Friday. He seems to be in good enough spirits. You would thing that the bits of cloth that we cover our heads with (I'm currently wearing a big, round, brightly-colored knitted [URL='http://www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm#Yarmulke'][I][U]kippa[/U][/I][/URL]; Mrs. 200Meters usually wears some kind of beret when we are out & about) should mean something, that said bit of cloth should indicate that the Jewish person wearing it is more morally and ethically minded, more spiritual, more conscious of G-d and His presence in our lives. Those bits of cloth [I]should[/I] mean those things but all too often they're just rags to mop up the moral/spiritual/ethical detritus of our lives. When Mrs. 200Meters & I first started visiting Youngest in the hoosegow, I would look at the other visiting families and think how we weren't like them. But I realize that's just my being a snob. That's a rationalizing lie that I tell myself. We are exactly like them. 'Cause we had leftover cornflakes that nobody seemed to be eating. The muffins came out really good. Youngest certainly has infinite value within him,of that I have no doubt. He just has to recognize it and claim it. Ditto for Oldest. Cape Town, South Africa, is a spectacularly beautiful city. But when the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias first sailed around the the southwest corner of Africa in 1488 and discovered the sea route to India, he was actually blown around the cape in a storm. When he eventually got to back to Lisbon, he told King John II that he had taken the liberty of naming the cape, the Cape of Storms. The king vetoed that and being the king, renamed it the Cape of Good Hope. Dias saw the present storms. But the king could look past the gloomy present toward the good hope of a bright future. Mrs. 200Meters & I keep praying (literally!) that like the king, Youngest will look past his gloomy present and understand that he can have a bright future. I don't know that you are lost at all. You are wandering. But as J.R.R. Tolkien writes: "Not all those who wander are lost / The old that is strong does not wither / Deep roots are not reached by the frost." Do not allow your present wandering to mislead you into thinking that you are lost. You are not. The passing frost cannot reach your deep roots. You will be surprised how much you have left. I couldn't do this without Mrs. 200Meters. We couldn't do this without each other. Our marriage is the axis, the center, around which everything else in my life revolves. We have been married for over 31 years. She is the blessing of my life. Good for him, and for you. May G-d bless him that he continues to grow. That is all we can do. The rest is up to G-d. [/QUOTE]
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