In my weekly eve and weekend games, the same expectation applies to all players: Get open, get ball, shoot.  And some I play with demonstrate phenomenal shots and range.  I know my spots and when to slide or roll after a pick.

Have you every gotten frustrated and angry at our government institutions (I know;) Here's a captial idea...pay your government bill with pennies.   In fact a business owner recently did this. Nick Stafford paid a DMV bill of $2,987.45 using five wheelbarrows filled with 300,000 pennies.   The employees at the DMV office in Lebanon, Virginia were forced to count each penny by hand to confirm they totaled the right amount, which they did.  

Recently, Ben blogged re our most worthy Advocates initiative. Another of our great under the radar Gotham initiatives available to all members is our peer mentor program.   Administered by Flo Feinberg, it matches Gotham peer members in a unique counter intuitive manner.  We seek to hook up 2 people from 2 different worlds so that their shared experience is potentially so much wider.  Thus, when one peer asks the other "Have you ever faced this situation before?" the response allows for broadened horizons and shared experience. 

Every week, on Friday afternoon, towards the end of the workweek, I get a subliminal message reminding me to wish a good friend a "Good Sabbath" - a "Shabbat Shalom" - in anticipation of the imminent arrival of sundown. We exchange the greeting, whether in a text message, voice call or, on rare occasion, in a face-to-face exchange, and whether initiated by him or by me.

There are a lot of great films out there to be seeing. I find watching a movie, especially in a theater, to be a wonderfully uplifting experience. In hard times, a good film can really change my mood.   First and foremost, you must see Hidden Figures. It is not because it is such an artfully crafted film, but because it has so many messages of hope. How much good is going on in the world that we never see. How to stay true to yourself in the midst of much resistance. How to overdeliver at work and how that can change the world. Go. Now.  

  Well, not really. Unless you are part of what has become a tradition around the world – No Pants Improv. Here’s how it works.

In Yiddish the word for jinx is kaynahora.

I already played two hours of (basket)ball, enough of a workout for any day. I did not anticipate that hours later another workout loomed.