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Sukkot has become my favorite holiday. We actually didn’t have a sukkah in my boyhood. But when my kids were young, we took the old good-wood storm doors and windows from the cellar …
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Mike Fink
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10/13/16
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I don’t “Google.” Instead, I pick up a book from any of the many bookshelves in my various abodes. There are even volumes at the dump I take home and treasure!
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Mike Fink
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9/16/16
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No piping plovers at the dunes, but I checked out Moonstone Beach and a single sandpiper came from the shoreline to greet me.
Another day – a foggy/misty morn – as I strolled from the towers to the oblong where the Narrow River pours into Narragansett Bay, I found a solitary waterfowl, an avocet I think, short but with a long curved beak and heron-like legs. Perhaps it was a Stilt. It made up for my disappointment in not coming across cliff swallows or arctic terns.
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Mike Fink
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8/4/16
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We met for coffee to discuss her book, its past and its future. She handed me an advance copy of “Eavesdropping in Oberammergau”: a black and white cover photograph of a cliff and …
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Mike Fink
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6/24/16
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The young newlywed soldiers from the StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers Tour (see page 3) appeared at Laurelmead Cooperative, in Providence, in April and were warmly received by the mostly elderly …
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Mike Fink
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5/12/16
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Marguerite Dorian Taussig came to our town, taught a class in botany, composed and contributed a fine and witty essay about how the names of perfumes change to reflect the mood of the times, and …
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Mike Fink
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4/15/16
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Harry Ezratty’s helpful and useful study of Caribbean Jewish history, in “The Jews in the New World” trilogy, claims there isn’t much of a Sephardic presence in Puerto Rico: Spanish rule and the Inquisition discouraged all but a few …
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Mike Fink
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3/18/16
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I like to fight back against the health-food and exercise addicts. “My father,” I claim, “prescribed salt – a pile, a pillar, of it against infection, a cigarette as a cure for a cold, and a shot of Four Roses as a pick-me-up …
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Mike Fink
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2/19/16
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I’m not a rabbi, but I AM a “minister.” She sent me a legal document that declares I can perform a proper marriage ceremony – my alumna, who met a boy in Rome and brought him to her nice little cul-de-sac in Brooklyn. (The home purchased …
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Mike Fink
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1/22/16
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It’s such a big book, how can you “teach” it in a single semester? My art students at the Rhode Island School of Design put most of their talents and efforts into the studio world, not the classroom realm of ideas.
It’s hard …
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Mike Fink
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12/25/15
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