Yesh Li Blog: February 2014

Sunday, February 09, 2014

TH Automotive — Grand Opening

Tim Hawpe and his crew have been keeping our cars on the road and in tiptop condition since the late 90's. We have had no other mechanic since arriving in Colorado over 17 years ago. You will find the folks at TH Automotive courteous, helpful, and reliable. We were invited to join Tim, crew, family, and friends for the grand opening and ribbon cutting yesterday, Saturday, February 8th. The mayor of Northglenn was on hand to do the honors, and NAPA provided some burgers and brats for the celebration. Here are some pictures of the event and the new facility.

http://www.thauto.com/

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Preparing to cut the ribbon on TH Automotive's new facility. Northglenn's mayor is doing the honors.

Success. The ribbon is cut and the facility is open for inspection.

Dusty at the ribbon cutting. He is the person you are most likely to reach when calling 303-255-8487 to set up an appointment.

Mark in the new office. Our vehicles owe much to his knowledge, integrity, and workmanship.

Attempting to communicate a feel for the enormousness of the facility.

NW Corner

NE Corner

SE Corner

SW Corner

NAPA provided a tasty lunch.

SW Corner. Tim's Corner. Besides being an intrepid entrepreneur in the automobile repair world, Tim restores classic cars and creates jewelry, among other things. Kathy and I were commenting on his wonderful joie de vivre, his enjoyment of so many things, and the way he enthusiastically shares this joy with those around him.

Tim, at his workbench, with his wife, Deb, and his mother.

Tim greeting customers/friends (the terms are synonymous, because once you are a customer, you become a friend).

So disappointed that this picture did not turn out well but wanted to post it just the same.

TH Automotive web site here.

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!