A food and gardening diary. Sunday, May 27, 2012. We are going to a Memorial Day gathering later today, and I volunteered to bring a dessert. Flipping through the May issue of Martha Stewart Living. It has been a long time since I posted anything on this blog. Maybe I just needed a break. Sunday, October 16, 2011.

Reflections on Justice, Society, Politics and Faith. The Transforming Power of the Scandalous Plea for Justice. Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney. The Syrophoenician woman was desperate but her actions were scandalous. She was desperate to help her very sick daughter, so desperate that she broke all the rules. Everything about the woman and her actions was an affront to how things should have been.

Polish-language Jewish daily newspaper published in Warsaw before World War II. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit. Statue Korczak at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Recently I have begun to think anew about space. No not what lies above in the starry heavens, but instead the spaces we inhabit and how we use them.