librarygeek

Making a pinned post:

I'm a certified Pennsylvania library technical assistant. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Liberal Studies, Social Sciences concentration.

I'm taking lots of classes as a student with the mystics of Jewish Renewal, http://www.aleph.org and associated groups like Yerusha and Hebrew College. The next Kallah will be near here in West Chester. I've been accepted for my first unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at a local historic hospital. I'm also taking Biblical Hebrew through a Liberal London rabbinical college with adult learning courses. As such, all people who see other people as similar and still respect their diversity, are my people too.

I have multiple medical conditions and the current laws will lead to more deaths. The pandemic is real, wearing good masks in public buildings can keep you safer, vaccinations work for those not medically prohibited from the current formulations, and I have little patience left for people who have watched over a million Americans die and still think it's a hoax. I've lost a dozen people I knew, several dozens that were my teachers or textbook authors, and I've lost count of the friends and family that have also had more deaths.

Libraries advocate for privacy and freedom of information, while still promulgating FACTS.

I will screen all comments on this post, in case you need to Ask Me Anything. Reference desk at your service!

Most of the time, if you can read the post, feel free to comment on it, even if it's as short as an emoticon or just "still reading!"

I absolutely despise that this hope for the youngest of the hostages has been destroyed. I am so upset that even the hopes of my mystic Sufi Muslim friends have been destroyed as well.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-843061

America was never America to me,
And yet I swear -
IT WILL BE

https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again/embed

Made a public post just to see how it works: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/srvankeuren/digital-torah

Anyone here want to critique what I have up, or ask for more things?

Pierpont Community and Technical College https://www.pierpont.edu/ will give you an Associate's degree for free. https://www.pierpont.edu/academics/associate-degrees/board-of-governors/

So what are the catches? Follow this plan: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC
( Read more... ) If you still need more credits to get the 60 credit minimum, sign up on www.Sophia.org for anything that you are interested in and don't already have covered via community college, TECEPs, TEEX, Google Coursera IT certificate...

DO NOT APPLY at Pierpont until you have that minimum! If you then want to continue on through Thomas Edison State University tesu.edu for your bachelor's, I can help ANYONE who asks below or PMs me how to get through a Bachelor's degree for least cost. Yes, I'm a TESU Alumni Ambassador, but I also think it's the best way for adults who like studying for tests for credit.

If you're Jewish or adjacent, Coopersmith Career Consulting https://www.coopersmithcc.net/shop/ can help you get credits in things you probably have a background in already, like how did most American Jews get here, Jewish Immigrant history, Yiddish or Modern Hebrew for credit. If you're not Jewish, they still have a lot of allied health, business, computer, culinary, psychology and sociology courses that you might want to look at as well.

I've edited my pinned post. I'm applying for official Rabbi-Chaplain student status, Clinical Pastoral Education unit, and Tutor.com for some extra income.

I was upset at losing count of how many people I know who have died since December 2019, and then I remembered this. Progo is a singular cherubim, for those who never read the rest of the Time Quintet books.

Quote running through my head lately:

" 'Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?'

How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.'

But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.'

I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.'

But how many?'

What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.' "
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)

Last year, I made this post: https://librarygeek.dreamwidth.org/44452.html.

The affirmation I came up with then still applies: Tie rope swings, not nooses, and yet, *WE* persist.

I will still pray that this state of Pennsylvania, and this country United States of America, has enough votes in tomorrow's election that want to maintain "a democracy, if you can keep it" (Dr. Benjamin Franklin), and wants us to persist.

One of our candidates in Pennsylvania is a doctor that doesn't understand that septic tissue with a cardiac pulse that had started and stopped, needs to be removed to prevent septicemia. He (because of course it's a he) thinks its removal is murder, but at least he seems to be a decent human being, if not a good medical doctor. A different office's candidate I believe flunked kindergarten. He doesn't want to share, he says mean things, and thinks calling climate change fake science is going to work. He was *also* present at that infamous rally on the Mall January 6th, 2020, but he didn't go into the Capital Building, which as he keeps pushing the election denier spiel, just makes him a coward, without even the courage of his convictions.

Contemplation question to answer if you choose:Are your actions in love with Power, or with the Power of Love? It's basically the bedrock mystery of mysticism: If you have felt that Universal Love even once, you can't hate anyone.

Nichelle Nichols has died. As much as I love Star Trek OS, what I think of first is that she still remembered Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr, and kept with Star Trek because Rev. Dr. King said she was a role model.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Reflects-On-MLK-Encounter

A great song is heard across the cosmos, in a million different languages, "Hailing frequencies open, for every one of us!"

Anyone else thinking of rewriting this nursery rhyme for current not so United States of America conditions?

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” Lyrics

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!

https://allnurseryrhymes.com/the-fifth-of-november/

This is background information you might need before reading more: https://velveteenrabbi-feed.dreamwidth.org/687561.html

Tamei, tamei: my father's body died 12:15 AM April 2, today. He is no longer in any pain, physical, emotional, or spiritual. Yes, I hope that a community will support me now, after my last post.

I'm going to go work on an obituary to post in our hometown and for our childhood synagogue.

Baruch haDayan Emet, blessed is the True Judge.