Yesh Li Blog: Portrait with Gray Tape

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Portrait with Gray Tape

So Bonnie posted a picture of herself and her car in high school (above--or see her blog here: http://www.robogiles.blogspot.com/), and it reminded me of a picture she took especially for me when she first moved to Colorado. She broke her car window, and she was using gray tape to fix it. We had a running joke in our family about me using gray tape to fix anything and everything, so she had this picture taken of herself wearing "bracelets" of gray tape!

2 comments:

Bonnie said...: Ha ha !!!

Two things ... that was not MY car in highschool ! I didn't have a car ! That was in Spain and I was just walking past and for some reason thought that was funny and worth taking a picture of !! I did learn to drive in Spain ... Mom used to take me to the "space shuttle emergency landing" road and let me practice. The one time she let me take it on open roads I nearly killed us all when I was crossing from that road to go to the pier and hit the gas instead of the brake !!! We FLEW across that busy street !! Angels working over time that day !!

And the second thing ... you said we HAD a running joke. You should know that joke is still running !! It comes up in conversation everytime I see my siblings !! And sometimes, even in everyday conversation ! In fact, I was just telling some friends about it the other day !! :)

I'll have to do a post about this gray tape car of mine ! I've got another photo of it all finished !

Bon

PS ... thanks for the ship/boat distinction !!; 3:20 PM
Bonnie said...: Dad ... I came over to declare it "MOST DEFINATELY TIME FOR ANOTHER YESHLIBLOG POST DAY" and then I saw the Gray Tape post. So, while I shall still make my declaration, I must also tell you that the gray tape has struck again ! I fixed my popcorn popper with it !! ha. I said to Rory when I had finished my repair job "My Dad would be proud !"; 9:43 PM

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Why Yesh Li Blog?

Why do I have a blog? Quite simply, I have a blog to share my favorite things with others. The right side of the blog has a long list of links to some of the places on the Internet that I visit often. In addition to sharing those with others, I often come here myself to find a quick link to where I am going.

Bonnie, our eldest, led the way into blogging with her Simple Beauty Blog, and later with her extremely popular Beans Blog. I decided I would give blogging a try and thought "I have a blog" might be a clever name, but in English it sounded rather lame, so I did it in Hebrew, a language I love more and more the more I learn it.

What does Yesh Li Blog mean?

We would translate (i.e. interpret) yesh li blog to mean "I have a blog" in English, but the literal Hebrew means "There is for (or to) me a blog." You cannot literally say "I have" something or other in Hebrew. It is always "there is for me," or "there is for you," or "there is for us," etc. Hebrew, the language of the Bible, is showing us that we are really stewards of what has been provided for us and for our use. Rather than private ownership, perhaps a better term for what we "own" would be private stewardship.

Languages have been my passion since at least the fourth grade, when I studied Spanish from a library book called Fun with Spanish. In high school, I was the rara avis that became enamored of Latin. In later U.S. Navy tours of duty in Spain, Italy, and Japan, we did our best to learn the local languages. Along the way, I studied some Russian and picked up some Greek by studying etymologies and some Chinese by studying Japanese writing systems.

My first introduction to Hebrew was in the early 1980s, when I took a correspondence course, but it was not until the past decade that my primary focus has been on this wondrous language. It has been deeply rewarding, and especially in the past few years since we met Ori, an amazing Israeli woman, who has become not only my primary Hebrew mentor but also our good friend. Moreover, the small group of people who meet weekly to study Torah in Hebrew in Boulder have become dear to us and enriched our lives greatly. Further, reading Jewish commentaries on the Web of the weekly Torah portions has deepened my own faith and opened up new understandings of the scriptures we share and of Christian writings based on those scriptures.

The pursuit of words has been an essential part of my life for many years (since birth?). Many things have changed in my life, but I don't see that part of it changing any time soon (until death?). Lehitraot! Shalom, Chaverim!