Sing-A-Long

You had to be Jewish to sing along but the idea was lovely. Some 60 Jewish students entertained some 300 residents at yesterday's Lieberman Sing-A-Long. The event was held in the community room. The music was Passover oriented and while for the most part it was the students singing, the residents did clap and some did rock along to the music.

I will be honest in that I used to think these kind of pretend events were pathetic. Noisy. People not aware of their surroundings. An attempt at bringing life to the dead. I do not mean to be mean, just honest.

Now, I enjoy these event whole heartedly. Each person IS aware in their own way at their own level. The noise is inevitable but does not distract. The music did bring life to the dead and much more.

In the future, I will work at not judging before I am an integrated part of an experience.

https://soundcloud.com/mhorvich/dyano

Time To Review

Each night, when Gregory and I are tucked into bed and the lights are turned out, we hold hands.

I review the events of the day, beginning with "It was a good day." (Even if it wasn't.) I briefly name each significant event: for example: "We shopped for groceries. For dinner we had pizza. The Call The Midwives episode was wonderful."

Next I review the events for tomorrow, again very briefly. For example: "Tomorrow we have a slow morning, then we go to the opera at night."

To the day's event review, Gregory usually responds with: "Yes it was good." or "It was great." or just "Uhuhh."

To the tomorrow's event review, Gregory usually responds with something like: "Oh goodie." or "Nice!" or "Mmmm."

Over time I had to learn not to discuss the entire week, or anticipate out loud something that was happening in two or three days. Too much information was not only not remembered but it confused time even more than it was already confused. He would ask, for example: "Is the movie today?" When it was on the weekend. or "When will they visit?" When people were  going out to dinner with us mid-week. What he doesn't know doesn't hurt!

Works pretty well. Not sure how much he understands or remembers but it does give us something to talk about when we go to bed besides the always wonderful:

M: Good Night, I love you.
G: Me too!
M: Me three:-)