Life · Tuesday October 27, 2009 by Julie
It was Bob’s 90th birthday today. Everybody came, in the honey-gold sunlight, and ate cake. My klezmer group played a few tunes, ending with the liturgical Avina Malcheinu, a real tear-jerker.
Afterwards, a woman who was only 81 held my hands. “Sometimes life feels so unfamiliar,” she told me.
