Three Identical Strangers Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Indie

I had meant to include this in my last post.

Three Identical Strangers

   THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS   is the most wild ride. Its the story of a Jewish adoption agency in the sixties that decided to separate twins and triplets without the knowledge of their adoptive parents.
    I can't imagine finding out at 19 that there are two other people in the world who look exactly like me. It is so interesting to see how the story unfolds. Even though there is tragedy and these boys have to deal with the weight of their story it is still amazing how they found each other despite such great effort to keep them apart. If you ever believed in bashert, this movie has it ins spades. These brothers were destined to be together despite evil forces that conspired to confirm otherwise.
    As I watched this documentary it boggles my mind how a Jewish adoption agency could have done this not as many years after Mengele yemach sh'mo as one would like to imagine.
    I love how the parents , relatives and friends were included in this documentary, especially the aunt with the haunting voice.
     Though so  much of this documentary has been included on you tube it does not cover it all.
 This is  the ultimate nature vs nurture in reality. I highly reccommend it.

   

Some Inspiration on a Monday Night

     A few years ago I had a friend who had a serious illness and eventually was in hospice. I wished that I had heeded my mother's advice and visited her sooner rather than later. At the time I had been in denial that my friend really was as sick as she was. I did end up visiting her but unfortunately for me she was pretty far gone when I finally made my appearance. My friend knew she had a visitor but I'm not convinced that she remembered who I was.I am glad I visited her and it was good for her to have had a visitor but it would have been better had I visited her when she still would have known who I was and when she still could have a coherent conversation.
    As luck and life would have it I have been given the opportunity to do better another time. I have another friend who is now in hospice care. I visited him in the hospital right before he was admitted to hospice care. It was hard to look at him but his spirit was still there and he had his wits about him.
   Today I visited my friend  in the  hospice. I am not sure there are not many people who can say that when they left from visiting a friend who is hospice that they were smiling. My friend looked a lot better than he did when he was in the hospital. His hair is gray but his skin no longer is. He actually looked healthier. He is also such an inspiring person. When I entered the room he offered me seltzer for hachnosas orchim. At first I thought he was asking me to pour him some seltzer but alas he was offering me some seltzer. I was in awe.
      Its not that there was deep conversation during my hospice visit but It was so nice to see that though my friend is in hospice his spirit and personality is still there. I was so happy to visit and see that he was still himself, still with his sharp humor and kindness. I left smiling and felt glad to have visited a friend and not like I was "just" visiting someone in hospice.

Self Help?

      I am pretty confident in the way I look. I may want to lose a little more weight , but in general I do not think that my looks are why I am single. Meanwhile I went to visit friends who were obsessed with a beauty makeover self help book. In their defense they believed that everyone must be self conscious about their looks. Again, not my issue. I don't think that I am a beauty queen, I just feel confident.
      Once I finished chatting with my friends about their beauty self help aspirations I felt a lot worse about myself. Thanks but no thanks.

2 Ingredient Quinoa Pizza Crust

    I recently bought quinoa for another recipe that I have . The recipe was OK, but I had a lot of quinoa still hanging around. I found this recipe for quinoa bread / pizza crust on you tube. I tried it last night and made it into pizza and it was really good. I have made my own pizza crust with regular flour which isn't bad but this is even easier to make and tastes equally good. I am not sure that its really healthier than crust made of wheat flour but its easier to get the right crust texture with the quinoa crust so I would say that makes it superior to regular flour crust.
  FYI, I did not add maple syrup or any sweetener to this crust. I did not rinse the quinoa either.  I am not vegan so I used cheese as a topping. See what you think . 

Yichus

     Yichus is such a funny thing . Those who know that they were related to various great rabbis are so impressed by themselves for having it as if it has anything to do with who they are . It might, but not necessarily. I suppose I sound envious but not really. I might have some unbelievable yichus to some great rabbi but pogroms etc has made it difficult for me  to keep track of  my lineage. Most Jews have this issue. I have always thought that by virtue of being Jewish I have good yichus. I think that those of us who still know that we are Jewish know this because we have family members who stuck by tradition / therefore are good yichus. Since Jews lived only in certain enclaves it stands to reason that most of us if we do not descend from converts likely are related to those with the enviable yichus.

Japanese Forest Bathing

   Whenever I go to the botanical gardens I feel my blood pressure plummet. Then I saw this video. Now I know why and that there is a reason why I feel this way. One thing that I increasingly miss about the suburbs is nature. I just renewed my Brooklyn Botanical Gardens membership for another year.