Jyms of Wyzdom for October 4, 2019

By today, the temps are supposed to be in the 60’s. Yippee! Fall is our favorite season so how about some fall-like temps?

Met Opera in HD: The new season is about to descend on us. I’ll just give you information on the first two. On Saturday, October 12, Turandot, Puccini’s final opera and certainly my favorite, will feature Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Roberto Aronica and James Morris. Conductor is Yannick Nezet-Seguin; production Franco Zeffirelli. OK, this production is over 30 year old but a more perfect vision of the world of the opera, I cannot imagine, and I have seen one other production that was nowhere as gorgeous as this. On Saturday, October 26, Massenet’s Manon will take the stage with Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, et al. Both performers are scheduled for 12:55 PM at the Regal Hollywood cinema. The football game that day begins at 4 PM, so we’ll be getting out during the game for easy trips through the vacant city.

I read a story once of a group of Jews who were escaping the Nazis. They were walking over a mountain, and they carried with them the sick and the old and the children. A lot of old people fell by the wayside and said, “I’m a burden; go on without me.” They were told, “The mothers need respite, so instead of just sitting there and dying, would you take the babies and walk as far as you can?” Once the old people got the babies close to their bosom and started walking, they all went over the mountain. They had a reason to live. [Actress Ruby Dee]

All is pattern, all life, but we can’t always see the pattern when we are part of it. [Writer Belva Plain]

It’s really wonderful to be back in OLLI classes! Take all the advantage you can to learn new things, mean someone new, renew old friendships, and see things from a different perspective.

I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief—even that of others, and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe—even when I myself am being blind a nd deaf, or even indifferent—in the existence of a mystery. [Writer Iris Origo]

Have a blessed Holy Day or just be still and listen to what the universe has to say to you.

Shalom, Jim