Happy New Year!

Chicken Jalfrezi

Hannah Arendt

In her reporting of the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial for The New Yorker, which evolved into Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), she coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Eichmann. She raised the question of whether evil is radical or simply a function of thoughtlessness, a tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without a critical evaluation of the consequences of their actions and inaction. She was sharply critical of the way the trial was conducted in Israel. She also was critical of the way that some Jewish leaders, notably M.C. Rumkowski, acted during the Holocaust. This caused a considerable controversy and even animosity toward Arendt in the Jewish community. Her friend Gershom Scholem, a major scholar of Jewish mysticism, broke off relations with her. Arendt was criticized by many Jewish public figures, who charged her with coldness and lack of sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust.

Due to this lingering criticism, her book has only recently been translated into Hebrew. Arendt ended the book by writing:

Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations—as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world—we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

Macaroni & Cheese

Cookies

Meow--ry Christmas

Gifts

Organic Apples

A Christmas Carol Film Festival

New Boots

Television

Instructions

The Pursuit of Happiness

Yippee!

Mani

Lunch

Fall to Winter

Turkey Dinner

Butterfly

Stuffing

Huaraches

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Apples

Cat Box

Salad

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Strawberries & Ricotta

Joy

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”

~ Maya Angelou

Cheesecake

Pink Shoes

Cheeseburger & Fries

Thanksgiving Day

Live your truth. 

Express your love. 

Share your enthusiasm. 

Take action towards your dreams. 

Walk your talk. 

Dance and sing to your music. 

Embrace your blessings. 

Make today worth remembering.

~ Steve Maraboli

Onion Rings

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

~ George Eliot

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

The Books of Doris Lessing

I did not find any answers in The Golden Notebook when I first read it, nor did I identify with Anna Wulf – Anna Freeman – as some sort of personal feminist hero. I do not think that was the point. But then, as now, it helped to steer me towards knowing which questions to ask, in order to try to do things differently. That's why I gave the novel as a gift, and will continue to do so.

~ Natalie Hanman


I am grateful for the writing of Doris Lessing - 

Stop and photograph the Roses

Fun with a bag

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. 

~ Leo Tolstoy

Ice Cream

Lucky Leaf

It’s good luck to catch a falling leaf before it touches the ground. 

Slap the lucky leaf against your forehead, turn around in three complete circles, and then make a wish!

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