You shall love your neighbor as yourself, it's not exactly unclear

I've been going to bed late and getting up early, so I'm extremely tired. But time keeps moving forward.

This morning I successfully set the כונה kavanah ("intention") for a prayer as part of Mishkan's morning minyan, and I picked הריני מקבל על Hareini Mekabel Alai, the prayer for "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." I talked about how that's such a simple statement but people keep trying to find a way around it or some way to get out of it, much like with "Black Lives Matter" or with another similar statement I've seen elsewhere, "Women are human." You should love your neighbor as yourself, even if they mow the lawn at 6:30 a.m. on Shabbat, or glare at you when you go out to get the mail, or are Christian or Muslim, or are black. The statement is clear. Then I led the singing, and now Mishkan knows that I can sing, and that might be trouble in the future. I suspect this won't be the last prayer I lead.

I saw an amazing quote on Facebook someone shared from tyree.kimber that ran:

ME, A CYBERPUNK FAN IN THE 90S: Why do they think we'll only talk in weird slang in the future?
ME NOW: Bae, spill the tea on these K-pop stans. When Tik-Tok zoomers yeet the alt-Right it's heart reaccs only.

...and I immediately burst into laughter because I understood every part of that second quote. I shared it and then several people were like "wtf are they saying" which just made me laugh harder. As uriany said, "Null sweat, chummer."

( Farmer's Market Dinner )

I'm seeing sashagee tonight! And other than that, my upcoming plans are fluid. Yesterday lisekatevans and I went on a walk along the Lakefront when it was technically closed, but just like all the other times it's been closed no one cared, not even the group of bike cops we saw go by. We sat on the path, watched the swollen lake lap over the lowest tier and walked on the nearly-swamped pier, and chatted for an hour. Other than the asshole screaming obscenities at several passersby for daring to come close to him during the Plague Year (outdoors, in the lake breeze, when we know that shouting is far more likely to spread respiratory illnesses ), it was incredibly peaceful. Since being outdoors is pretty safe, I feel like I'll be spending more time at the lake this year than I ever have in the past.

I didn't get to go to Mishkan's meditation, but that walk was healing too.