Reconnect the Connection

Hello my dawlinks!  It's your Yenta.  I've been traveling around Florida and have to tell you there are some very nice parks here; who knew? 

Back in the sixties, the season of love, as we called it -- or the age of enlightenment --  there was a movement afoot that a lot of people didn't farshteyn (understand), perhaps it was ahead of its time, where understanding of oneself was too esoteric.  It was along the same line as those that were "finding" themselves, using meditation to oysbreytern (expand) their minds and get closer to… whatever they wanted to get closer to.  Self expression had become the norm among the collegiate sect and beyond, with the coffee houses, "experimental" atonal music, poetry, self-induced escapes (if they so chose) and an affection for nature.  There was more to it , of course,  but it's not all masbir zayn (explainable).

All of this led to the egoistish (selfish) seventies, which bled into the groys (big)-haired eighties, and I'm not quite sure what happened in the nineties since I was still reeling from the thirty years before.  But all that's water under the bridge, as it's said.  Let's kibbitz what this is really about.

In all my vegslayt (traveling), the one constant was the people that wanted to find happiness within themselves.  The disconnect they felt, the one we didn't want back in the sixties, was and is prevalent in our lives haynt (today).  Something so embedded and unnamed that it gnaws at us daily and yet is untouchable.  This is something your Yenta knows about, my dawlinks.  A road long traveled from the old country, to the new world - froth with oyfgehaytert (excitement) and trepidation. 

One person was telling your Yenta that he went to his church, as he does every Sunday, but couldn't connect the way he thought everyone else was.  He actually thought something was "wrong" with him.  Going through the motions of what he thought he was supposed to do, hoping something would click, he did this every week without fail for years until finally he couldn't do it anymore.  Something DID click.  Him. 

Liblings, with all the things we have to "bring us closer" to one another, we're more isolated than ever.  With the advent of shopping online we no longer have to go to a store and kibbitz with other people and interact, the cell phones we carry prevent us from narish (silly) conversations with those around us, libraries are falling by the wayside, as are bookstores.  Reading, itself, is threatened.  Information is getting to us but the absorption is not, and all because we've cut ourselves off from one another.  That interaction that is so important as eyfel (babies) is still important as we grow up and grow old (neither of which will your Yenta ever do). 

Enlightenment doesn't come from the Internet, the TV, satellite radio, voicemail, or your smart phone.  It comes from within and includes our interaction with other people; talking with strangers in the checkout line, the nurse at the doctor's office, the teacher at school or the homeless person in the park.  We are all part of one another and to detach from that causes stress which causes tension which causes veytik (pain).  Why add to your veytik?

Here's your challenge:  One day a week -- mind you, just one day  --  disconnect from your electronics.  Don't go on your computer, limit your use of the cell phone, don't turn on your TV.  Go out and actually talk to another nefesh (human being).  I'm not going to tell you you'll feel better right away but you might be surprised at a few things.   A better feeling in you, perhaps a lower energy bill, maybe even something accomplished that's been needing your attention.  It couldn't hurt!

Your

Yenta

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Tue, 05/01/2012 - 10:41am

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Mardy Ross

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An Electronics Holiday!??? I'm IN!!!

Yenta - I'm glad you're getting out and around Florida 'in real life' and not through the electonics.  I like what you propose, and think of it is an 'electronics holiday'.  I think I'll take you up on that suggestion and let you know how it goes! Now that Oprah's Life Class' tour wrapped up last night -- what an amazing batch of wise ones she had on stage and interviewed from the crowd last night, with the most amazing people in the audience who offered up their life stories and pain for others to learn from.  Brave souls, and I think it was very powerful.  

So, while I do agree with having holidays from electonics, almost like there was no work on the Sabbath in some religions, I do very much see how they have aided in information getting to people. I have been thinking about the challenge of how to get people 'from knowing about something to doing something about it', and what you suggest I think would be a marvelous thing for people to do! 

I was noticing for the past days through years, a deterioration in people. Initially, I attributed it to things being different where I moved eight years ago, but then I started seeing the changes in people from the other side of the mountains where I'd been all my life.  

Being a 'problem solver', I wanted to figure out why this was happening and it seemed to coincide with the use of electronics. I hope that Lumigrate promotes the concept that it's not necessarily one thing that causes a change or illness, it can be co-factors, and I feel there are other things at stake as well; quality of our foods, for example.  You wrote about brussels sprouts previously, so I'm seeing that you're seeing these things as important to change and talk about too.  

Bravo, Yenta, I hope many will read this is see their spiritual stress and psychological pain and take steps to know themselves and those around them better.  As I say 'we're in this together'.  

Live and Learn.  Learn and Live Better!  ~~ Mardy

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Thu, 05/03/2012 - 6:04pm

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Yenta

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Re: Reconnect the Connection

I've been searching my brain for the proper reply when a khaverte (friend) sent this email to me.  Personally, I think it says it all...

May you be blessed with good neighbors who are there for you when you need them, and who are not around too much when you don't need them.

May the clothing styles of yesterday come back so you can wear all that stuff that you don't have the heart to throw away.

May those old fashioned expressions "thank you", "pardon me", "after you", and "you look lovely", come back into use. And may the expressions "you know", and "like", and "whatever" be retired forever.

May we sing songs that are singable, that have lyrics that are understandable.

May your hair, your teeth, and your stocks not fall. And may your blood pressure, your cholesterol and your mortgage interest rate not rise.

May the world enjoy a year that is free of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, drought, and political speeches, which produce the most wind of all.

May you have a spouse, or a child or a friend, or a grandchild, who loves you, even though they really know you. 

May you learn that giving love away freely without strings is the surest way of receiving it in return.

May your insurance pay whatever your doctor charges, without insisting on any further investigation, and may the IRS also accept whatever you pay, without insisting on any further investigation.

May you receive a good report, from your dentist, from your ophthalmologist, from your dermatologist, from your cardiologist, from your gastro-enterologist, from your podiatrist, and ultimately, from your G-d.

May there be peace this year between the Jews of Israel and the Arabs, and may there also be peace between all the Jews of Israel, which sometimes seems almost as difficult to achieve.

May your bank statement and your budget both balance, and may they both include generous amounts for charity.

May you have enough to give you contentment, and may you have enough left over that you can be generous.

May we keep rage off of the freeways, and out of the workplace, and out of our homes, and direct it instead at racism, at poverty and at all the evils that we politically tolerate.

May we learn in this new year that what really counts the most is not the years but the days, not the machines we have in our lives, but the people we have in our lives, not how much we can accumulate but how much we can share, and with whom.

And may we have peace in the world for all to enjoy.

And may G-d continue to always be with you and may you always know it!

Amen

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