songbird's crazy world

 The images from Israel …Iran’s missive attack …watching it in real time …on the eve of the High Holy days, and coming up on October 7 … I’ve got a friend living in Jerusalem and cousins visiting Netanya.

 Welcome October.  Is it finally cool enough to wear my sweater dresses and boots? I really want to wear my new boots. I really, really want to wear my boots.   I’m excited about wearing boot because …well, for the longest time I couldn’t wear boots.  I couldn’t zip them, they didn’t fit my legs.  But I’ve lost 110 pounds, I weigh less now than I did when I got married in 1987.  And boots fit again.  The Mets won yesterday and are headed to the playoffs.  October baseball!  Beat Milwaukee!  Yes, I’m psyched. But there are so many rounds of playoffs …it used to be much simpler.  We’ll see how far they go … Remember how Reggie Jackson was called “Mr. October”?  He played for the Yankees in the 70’s, when they kept winning  the World Series.  He even had a candy bar named after him …we were able to buy Reggie Bars last year at Bobb Howard’s, the store that sells nostalgic candy and toys.   Fall 1978, I was a freshman in college and my dorm was a 20-story tower.  During the playoffs and th