Happy Anniversary - Fifteen years

Ruth and I celebrated our fifteenth anniversary today.

We met on a blind date set up by our friend, Sherri Shunfenthal

We are still growing in our love.

Quarantine Diary 27, part two | Anti-Racism vigil

The anti-racism vigil by religious congregations along 16th Street NW in Washington DC continues. 

May the sound of the shofar call forth liberation and justice.

Black Lives Matter.

Quarantine Diary 27 part one | a quiet week

Scenes from a quiet week, mostly at home. Ruth is working at our kitchen tables. 

Meals, flowers in our yard. A beautiful and intricate puzzle. A trip to the grocery store.

Staying careful and healthy.

And committed to bettering our world.

Socially-distanced grocery store line, Baileys' Crossroads, VA.

Ruth at work.

Ruth's homemade pizza for lunch

Breakfast, and ready for work.

Quarantine Diary 26 | Ruth's birthday

For Ruth's birthday, we had some celebrations while she worked, and then went out to eat at (Meaza Ethiopian on Columbia Pike, our first meal at a restaurant since the COVID-19 pandemic began (it was  socially distanced, outside, and we and the waitress wore masks when ordering, etc.). We had a marvelous vegetable combination plate on fresh injera, and Ruth sipped her favorite, tej, Ethiopian honey wine. 

Our great neighbor Jerry Martineau gave Ruth a lovely bouquet from his garden. Yay Jerry!

We also took time to view the wedding of Ruth's cousin's daughter Tzippora, via Zoom. 

Mazel tov.

A good day.

Tzipporah's wedding

Shrines photo in Academy Art Museum Exhibition

I have a photograph of one of my DC shrines in an exhibition, New Photography II, at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland. The exhibition was curated by Phillip Brookman.

Quarantine Diary 25 | Anti-racism vigil on 16th Street NW DC, part two (Fabrangen)

Every Friday evening during June 2020, an anti-racism vigil has been held along the entire length of 16th Street NW, Washington DC.

These photographs are of my own religious community, Fabrangen, and some members of our host congregation, the Washington Ethical Society. 

It is said that  יהוה can be heard in the sound of the shofar blast.

Black Lives Matter.

Quarantine Diary 24, part one | DC streets (American investigations)

From a day in Northeast and Southeast Washington DC. 

The two street shrines are updates of older memorials that have been posted earlier on Washington's Other Monuments. 

Strange times we are living in. Hopefully transformational.

And flowers, too.