Another quiet day – we hit the Farmers’ Market in the morning and had very fresh salmon and corn for lunch.

The Shir Hadash Book Group (which Diane chairs) met over Zoom to discuss Philip Roth’s Nemesis; I’d read it when it first came out but didn’t reread it for the book group, so I was a little behind the curve for the discussion.

And the rest of the day went to High Holiday prep, Toastmasters work, and reading.

A quiet day, as I said.

Shir Hadash has been live-streaming its services on Zoom; we also record them and make them available on the Temple’s website at https://shirhadash.org/live. Diane and I usually attend the live service on Saturday morning unless it’s a Bar Mitzvah. Today was actually a B’nai Mitzvah with two kids from different families officially becoming adults, but it was my week to tend to the recording today, so we attended anyway.

It was a lot more interesting than I expected it to be – both of the teenagers were articulate and had written thoughtful speeches, and the logistics weren’t nearly as bad as I feared they’d be. Not knowing the families meant that the parents’ speeches when they were presenting the tallitot to the kids were less than compelling, but I am sure that was the case for anyone who didn’t know us when Jeff had his Bar Mitzvah, too!