Tevye 's Profile
May we in our common need and striving gain strength from one another, as we share our joys, lighten each other's burdens, and act for the welfare of our community. To act as if everything depended on YOU... and to love mercy.
Real Name: Tevye
Gender: male
Location: Crestone Colorado , Santa Fe New Mexico
Occupation: An International Relief/Aid Worker for over 3 decades. By trade, an ayurvedic vegetarian chef and business owner.
Groups: Team DFH, Colorado COmmunity, The Grieving Room, Elders of Zion, Street Prophets, Good News, Positive Intention and Lovingkindness, Kossacks for the Homeless Person, Fighting and Defeating the Neo Nazis, Something Good For A Change, Santa Fe Kos, Southern Colorado Kos, Kos Deadheads and Friends, What Would Rachel Do, Memorials, Tributes and Remembrances
Hobbies: Backcountry backpacking with my dog, thru-hiking, writing, reading, distance running, multi media storyteller
Diaries published: 250 (27 days since last diary on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 03:52 PM PST)
Comments posted: 6486 (1 day since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:55 AM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 6252
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: Kentucky Sanitation Worker Hadn't Seen Elderly Woman's Trash Out, Rightly Felt Something Was Amiss., 424 comments, 1117 recommends
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I reckon this is what they call ‘survivors guilt’. Their names and faces are burned into my minds eye, as their pictures adorn a wall in my study. Today, as I do semi regularly, I stand in front of each one and close my eyes, in remembrance and prayer....
by Tevye
147 comments on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 03:52 PM PST with 288 Recommends |
The way for many to show their rebellious streak as a child is to knock on a door or ring a doorbell and then run away. Yes, it probably results in some being disturbed from their dinner or whathaveyou, but all- in- all it’s harmless. The classic...
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50 comments on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT with 371 Recommends |
All Set To Retire, Then The Moment That Thrust Dianne Back Into Service And A Decade Of Cold Sweats. She and her husband Bertram were relieved about her impending early retirement from politics, and excited of what the future was going to bring. Bertram was a neurologist and doing very well thank you very much, and Dianne was digging deep on what the...
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61 comments on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 07:39 AM PDT with 275 Recommends |
The abused stray didn’t have a name when he was first brought into the Antrim County Animal Shelter in Bellaire, Michigan. Someone had shot him with a pellet or BB gun, which the shelter staff could feel under his bottom lip. He also displayed other...
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169 comments on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT with 901 Recommends |
14-year-old Connor Halsa of Moorhead, Minnesota was fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods, a massive lake straddling both sides of the US/ Canadian border. “We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and just...
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123 comments on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT with 629 Recommends |
Hi friends. I am now in Somerset, PA. I will be attending the services tomorrow, a dozen or so miles away at the Flight 93 National Memorial, for the third year in a row. Being in the presence of and offering my condolences to the families and friends...
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106 comments on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 02:14 PM PDT with 332 Recommends |
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- NN24 is next year. With the war between Hamas & Israel, and the rise of International Jew-hate, has left me wondering: Will I be safe at next year’s NN24? Will I Have to hide my Jewish identity? or will I have to wear something that ids me as a Jew?...18 comments 20 Recs
- This is really down to Maudlin, who shared the following information.� With her kind permission, I am sharing it here and hoping that all of us who knew and loved Observerinvancouver will do a bit ...29 comments 162 Recs
- I wrote this diary (my first!) in response to Tevye’s post about Scout, the dog who escaped from an animal shelter and took up residence at a care facility. It was too late for me to leave a comment in Tevye’s diary, but I thought people who enjoyed...117 comments 257 Recs
- Sergei Gredeskul was a Ukrainian physicist who authored several seminal works on physics of disordered matter — same area my father worked in, so they knew each other pretty well back in the 1970s and 1980s. Sergei got his Sc. D. a few years after my...114 comments 255 Recs
- By Gabriel Thompson �for Capital & Main On a cloudy afternoon in March, � two dozen Trader Joe’s employees filed into the bustling Oakland store in the Rockridge ...25 comments 81 Recs
- I spent most of last night trying to learn this song by ear. There’s a story behind it; probably a long story, but it’s about music, so I hope you’ll all bear with me. The song is “Summer Wheat”, an instrumental on acoustic guitar written by a dude...7 comments 14 Recs
- Tonight this old lapsed Methodist will spend the night in prayer and meditation on the grief and pain enveloping the Holy Land once again due to acts of violence. May all who have been wounded be healed, may all who have been slain find peace, may all...26 comments 77 Recs
- The video of HAMAS militants screaming “God is great” while parading a mostly-naked body of a young woman, horribly injured, unconscious or dead, in the back of a pickup truck, has become viral. I will not link to it. Apparently the person in the video...431 comments 283 Recs
- I’ve been a lurker for a long time, and as an Israeli-American find myself in agreement with a lot of the progressive ideals championed here, with the exception of the I/P conflict. Which is not to say that I agree with Israel’s policies in general....417 comments 203 Recs
- It’s here, it’s real. It may be more or less artfully concealed with “legitimate concerns” about this or that — which are not exactly relevant in the light of the recent HAMAS attack. I won’t link the comments — not all (or even most) of them are...145 comments 31 Recs
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