#SweetSunday Preview: Reisy and Rosie

Reilly Rosalita has a new teddy bear...and one that (sort of) shares a name with her.

This is an example of why Reilly’s greetings don’t tend to be live

PS Shabbat v’Chag Shavu’ot Haba Shalom, and mazel tov v’b’hatzlacha l’Bob Behnken v’Doug Hurley!

#WoofWednesday: Busted!

It doesn’t matter who started it; it matters that Cam’s picking up Ri’s bad example.

#SillySunday: how a natural light effect makes two puppies look

And then one picture in which the light did not distort their heads or necks:  

PS: Happy Homecoming Day, Reilly!

#SaturdaySurprise: picking up Reilly and Camille from their grooming appointment

PS “Momma”/“Auntie Nicole” finally got a way to embed the videos in Blogger entries from her iPhone after all!

#FluffyFriday: Camille Is Not a Night Owl

See https://youtu.be/ESUlt9-8ziY...as YouTube does not have an option for “Auntie Nicole” to get embed codes to embed the videos into her blog entries...at least in Chrome for iPhone.

To everyone whom is giving Governor Hogan‘s administration a hard time

The Preakness is a once-a-year event. In an average Maryland school year, or 180 days a year, there are way more people in way more crowded venues per day. Learning increasingly be done online, and not every kid does well in a traditional school setting, anyway (and especially students with disabilities do poorly in traditional schools settings compared to other students, mainly because their peers as well as those who are supposed to be their educators often try to  exclude them and otherwise bully them. That is thankfully much harder to do to a student when there’s a paper and/or a computer forensics trail, and authorities can get involved if someone needs to be held accountable for cyberbullying a student while he’s trying or she’s trying to learn.). Think about that before you criticize somebody whom has to consider 24 school districts state wide.

As for me, I still take Howard CC classes online, and last time I tried on campus was miserable – mainly because of an ablestic professor and one of her assistants. The worst part is that she knew that I  have disabilities in advance (She asked each student in the class on a form which she handed out if there were going to be any problems that might affect the student’s performance in the class. My cerebral palsy and men’s wellness is, including OCD/Anxiety, were not in known her. As for her assistant, that she’s another discussion is sufficient to say.).

I’ve also dealt with ableists at HCC even online—and one situation I was able to stop because I was able to threaten legal action and had an email trail (which I could’ve printed out if I needed to print it out) to help me (and even though I still can’t drive yet, someone would’ve hopefully done the right thing and given the paper trail to whomever it needed to be given should the situation have escalated to that). I can imagine, then, what the kids and adult students who don’t have that option – especially if they’re more vulnerable to something like COVID-19 — would have to endure if they didn’t have the online-learning option or another non-traditional option—and given the cases in the news, that might include their peers deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 or other viruses.

PS I will never forget when another HCC professor exclued me from an activity that involved tying shoes of all things—she didn’t even try to ask if I can do it – and even refused to help me up when I fell in the hallway one time—as she just walked right on by me, and she had seen me fall. That’s part (and what I subsequently endured is also part) of why I can imagine what kids and adult students who don’t have the options that I have might endure even worse than I endured — and anyone deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 might be among that.

#FluffyFriday: This is how Shabbat starts?

Reilly is not “Auntie Michelle‘s” choice of music at this time of night –especially because it’s not klezmer music on Shabbat😉.

To make up for it, “Momma” asked Alexa to play klezmer music—and the first song turned out to be one about Shabbat!

Busted! Reilly the chicken thief

Incidentally, Camille just got busted for biting “Mom-Mom“ when “Mom-Mom” was just giving them some chicken— and they’re not getting any more chicken for tonight as a result. Meanwhile, Reilly’s still trying to get food from the table!

So, Unfortunately, Some Rumors About A Certain Singer Being Anti Semitic Are True

See https://youtu.be/RaDX1si_vC8 for more on why.

#TuesdayTrouble: Staredown From An-Angry-at-“Momma” Reilly

The Reason That “Momma” Is a Human Mom...

In pictures:

Happy Mother’s Day to all human moms, whether they’re moms of human or fur babies— And whether they’re moms biologically, adoptively, or otherwise!

#MaltipooMonday: Camille and...

her “Mimi”. “Auntie Nicole“ could not resist capturing the moment in a photoshoot!

#SillySunday and #SleepySunday: “I am trying to nap, and...

“It’s not easy when Auntie Michelle is listening to good music and Mom-Mom is cooking steak.”

On an incidental note, Happy Metcha Day, Reilly!

Commentary: A Call to Shalom—and Being Better Than “Best”

The future alone—and ultimately, the “I Will Be Who I Be”, the Creator of all time—will judge which was the true United States of America from 2016 to 2020 and hereafter, and who were the true Americans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical ethnic prejudices (not to mention other prejudices) of the day (for example, gender prejudices), or those Americans pure in heart, soul, and mind, heirs to the great Americans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.

....Actually, I just changed and added a few words. The original was the following quote from Edmund Husserl: 

“The future alone will judge which was the true Germany in 1933, and who were the true Germans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.”

Every one of us needs to consider that this year as we vote, follow current events, and live our day-to-day lives coexistingly alongside fellow Americans and the strangers within our midst, even if we agree to disagree with them—especially if we ourselves are strangers because we are in various diasporas, and we can at least walk with others inasfar as we do agree with them.