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The accomplishments of the Jews

 The first experience that I had with the Jews was when my oldest sister moved in with him.  I learned that he was helpful, also funny and very liberal.  There is a strain of Jews who believe that through politics they could help many disaffected people, but they also put in the energy to help when they can and in any way they can.  One thing that  I noticed though, is that when bad things happened on the job, my sister's husband would be mad at the company that I worked for.   There is a sort of victimhood that is spoken about where you become a perpetual victim, suffering at the hands of a company, or a Republicans or something else.  Ever the victim we go about waging war on the system that stands in our way. I didn't want to write about victimhood though.  I want to tell of the accomplishments of Jewish people. The Jews are .2% of the global population and are responsible for 25% of all Nobel prizes. That's number one.  Some of the m...

Come To Me

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  Human beings have straying hearts.  Human beings have hungry hearts.  Human beings love new and love old.  Human beings innovate, stumble on things but reflect and reminisce about past victories or good family memories.   I came across the song We'll Meet Again.  I heard someone on YouTube playing it on a 1939 Hammond organ so I looked up the singer and found her.  She is Vera Lynn and she passed away in 2000 at 103 years young. There is a video of her performing the song for British troops and the connection is palpable.  There is very little in the world that connects people truly.  The history of the world is connection, disconnection and reconnection.  There are times when we feel a connection and we wonder where it could lead if anywhere.  Then we are surprised to find that the next encounter isn't the same and the connection was lost.  There are times when I connected with people because of music but outside of it there...