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Color perception tests

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:35:25 GMT

I've known for years, that even artists don't agree with me on the blue to green color line. What is turquoise or teal to me, seems different than what others say.

So here's a couple of tests:

ismy.blue

xrite.com/hue-test

After a few more people post their own results, I'll add mine.

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My Pibble princess

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:12:25 GMT

Our dog has metastatic cancer. Redbone coonhound and American Pitbull mix. She's a rescue and we've had her for over 10 years.

I'm a mess. She's the only pet I've had as an adult. I'm 53 years old with congenital heart disease and other medical issues, and I don't know if I'd outlive another pet. 😭

Gwinnett says Cancer BITES!

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Gene Hackman, pianist spouse Betsy Arakawa, and dog all dead

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:51:47 GMT

No foul play is suspected, and they were found dead in a police wellness check.

Gene Hackman I always remember as Lex Luther to Christopher Reeve's Superman. One of the articles mentions that Gene and Betsy were known for having German Shepherds. Yes, I am concerned about all three being dead at once.

Further investigation: 2 of their 3 dogs survived.

https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-found-dead-f6c106e92987aeaaab7b35c1b956a5c8

This is weird. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-wife-betty-awakara-death-suspicious-search-warrant/80714103007/

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Weary grief

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:03:28 GMT

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

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Invictus poem

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:37:24 GMT

We are the masters of our fate,
We are the captains of our souls!

Now go watch the movie again about desegregation of South Africa and coming together to cheer the rugby team.

https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.poetryfoundation.org%2Fpoems%2F51642%2Finvictus&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl2%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4

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Poetry

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:30:04 GMT

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

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

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Assassin's Creed torchbearer for the Olympics

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:08:00 GMT

https://youtu.be/yaHqzFpsVT0?si=UDvFasCv8Lu2UwUO

This amused me as I have watched my son playing Assassin's Creed Unity parkouring over Paris rooftops...

There are many reasons to be upset these days, take what amusement you can!

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Buy Me a Coffee

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:40:41 GMT

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?

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End of the Secular Year

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:54:16 GMT

May the New Year be a better one, for all who need that. May we all take the lessons of the last year into action for repairing the world.

Justice, justice, may we ALL pursue.

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USA _ Do you need an Associate's Degree? Do you have any credits yet?

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:18:54 GMT

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.

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Today is the Poetry Fishbowl, theme Nature.

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:42:30 GMT

Here's the link to ysabetwordsmith Poetry Fishbowl: https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13767433.html

Here's my prompt today: Polychrome Heroics - a touch-dominant artist, who adopts all the animals and is Buddhist and Jewish adjacent, yet has seen some 💩 that qualifies him for the peer counseling certifications.

I was trying to help a friend and Naropa University has an art therapy bachelor's that looked possible before I found out about his educational trauma: https://www.naropa.edu/academics/undergraduate-academics/art-therapy-online/

If you can prompt for something, great! If you just want to add +1 to someone else's prompt or otherwise further put a post like this on your own page, that helps. Then go to dialecticdreamer https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1060062.html and say what you did.

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Moving Forward

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:52:50 GMT

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)

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Graduate Certificate in Telehealth

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 02:20:15 GMT

November 9th I read about an opportunity to take 9 graduate credits, 3 courses, in a certificate in Telehealth for $50 to sign up, and $100 for program completion fee. No other tuition costs, but applications would close November 11. I quickly applied and got access to my first course November 15, and the course had opened November 14th.

I'm feeling lost much of the time because much of the course vocabulary is from project management, Telehealth Leadership and Management, but the other two courses are Trends in Telehealth Delivery, and Legal and Ethical Issues in Telehealth, when I believe I have a better foundation in the subject matter.

So it's good that I'm in the class, good that I'm learning things, good that I'm just trying to get a C in this specific class, and it's hard when I don't even get useful feedback from the professor.

Here's the program, if anyone wants to start in the January term: https://www.ace.edu/program/certificate-in-telehealth#courseplan
If anyone reading this has project management experience, you will have an easier time with the Leadership course in particular.

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A year later...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:03:45 GMT

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.

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Half a Century Lived

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:49:41 GMT

Yes, it's my birthday, and a landmark one at that. I've always wanted "An Unexpected Party" for this birthday, but pandemic means no. Friends are giving me pocket handkerchiefs, hats, and other things good for a Hobbit who's been very respectable, but secretly wants an adventure.

If you play Lord of the Rings Online, LOTRO.com, I'm on Gladden server, Eddelweis. Send me mail, and I'll send you food!

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Talk to the Cosmos

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 22:28:15 GMT

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!"

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New phrase - Uterine Slavery

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:59:06 GMT

I've been furious since THAT legal evasion of "rights should go back to the states to decide". ( Read more... )

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Need a new nursery rhyme, and I need a Guy Fawkes icon

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 23:27:24 GMT

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/

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Memorial Service Zoom

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:46:25 GMT

For anyone who might want to attend by Zoom up here:

A memorial service will be held at the synagogue on Sunday, April 10th at 4:00 pm. The service will also be available by Zoom at the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkc-yuqT8iHdy7Px6T-JuOyq6H2Vusjf5j

The family is requesting that everyone who attends in person be vaccinated and masked in the Sanctuary. There will be a meal of consolation outside under the tent following the memorial service.

Here’s what’s going into the Press Of Atlantic City:

Ronald R. Petlev (January 23, 1949 - April 2, 2022) was born in Philadelphia and raised in Atlantic City. A graduate of Atlantic City High School and Drexel University, he was a CPA, past president of Congregation Beth Israel in Northfield and the AC Jaycees, and once active in Avoda Club and the Justice Lodge #285 of the Freemasons. He moved first to Denton, Texas, and, after his wife of 36 years passed, to Moncure, North Carolina where he died peacefully after a long illness. Predeceased by his first wife Natalie, both parents Harry Petlev and Shirley Brenner, his brother Leonard and first sister-in-law Ricki, and his oldest nephew Jordan, he is survived by his second wife Maria (Sonny), his three children Stacey, Steven, Daria, their spouses, four grandchildren, five stepchildren and their families, two more nephews, and many family and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America. Services will be held privately.

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Mourning

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 18:31:07 GMT

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.

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My father

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:24:27 GMT

My mom died in August 2006, before I turned 34, my middle sibling had just turned 30, and our youngest sibling wasn't 24 yet. That was hard.

My dad psychologically died within 2 years of her death, the loss of his wife of 36 (double chai) years was too much for him, I guess.

He, previously a Reform synagogue president, moved to North Carolina, and married a Hebrew Christian woman who has been taking care of him. He didn't even tell us his children when he remarried.

My father is dying now, and I'm dealing with anger at how he treated us, relief that he won't be in any more pain, and trying hard to avoid his second wife, who seems to feel that getting me, a rabbinic student, baptized and following her vision of Jesus gets her afterlife brownie points (rolling eyes).

I've sent an audio recording of me singing the Vidui in proxy and my bedtime Shema. My local Reform rabbi, previously an opera singer, might do a recording of Kol Nidre, All Vows, as well.

Ok, what my rabbi sent me was this, from a colleague who got this one recorded: https://youtu.be/ZyMWiGvhndY Kol Nidre, All Vows, may we all be forgiven for the oaths and promises that we have failed, if we tried in good faith to fulfill, first.

Right now, I can't forgive his apostasy to get a caregiver, but I know that Shekhinah forgives him, and that's enough. I don't know what comfort there is for me right now.

If you're not on my access list, I'm screening comments. I'll probably let anything I would be comfortable showing my youngest sibling, to be unscreened.

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Yet, we persist

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 03:00:53 GMT

A lot of people are having a lot of issues. I don't know if Mercury is retrograde, the election was highly upsetting no matter what the political leanings of the viewers, or just continuing need to keep social distancing during the pandemic because of inadequate vaccination numbers, but everyone is at the ends of their ropes.

Don't tie nooses, but tie rope swings, and yet, we persist. Time will help some things, and other issues might be solvable after food, a shower, and sleep.

Ani lo yodaya. I do not know, and that may be the beginning of wisdom.

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Boost the Fishbowl! Polyamory in the QUILTBAG

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:53:35 GMT

Today is the Poetry Fishbowl on [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith's page. The theme this month is "Polyamory in the QUILTBAG" so it's perfect in you have a non-standard orientation, or if you just like reading about those things. Go leave a prompt and get an awesome poem!

Yes, I grabbed someone else's words for the boost, but my prompt is all me, as you can probably tell!

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Boosting the Feathering the Nest!

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:13:31 GMT

Today is the Feathering the Nest prompt call at dialecticdreamer’s blog! Offer an idea, and get a short story in return! Gentle fiction means no swearing, sex, or violence, and this prompt call focuses on fluff and comfort. Full details are in today’s post, so come and join the fun!

I asked for something with early Graham and hearing about Simon.

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Questions, by the Velveteen Rabbi

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:11:11 GMT

I'm reblogging this, because I have been asking these questions too, just not as well written.

https://velveteenrabbi-feed.dreamwidth.org/664817.html

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