Lubell Family Blog

Monday, November 28, 2011

Ilene Sings

Ilene joined the DePaul University Community Chorus about a year ago. In that time she has sung with them in several performances, the most recent of which was last week.

I shot a few clips and compiled them into this short video.

(Look hard, she is in the first row, on the left.)

I'm very proud of her, I know she worked hard to learn the material.

Thanks Lane for helping me get this uploaded.

Monday, October 3, 2011

A New Year

Rosh Hashanah services fell on a Thursday this year; so we went of to Heidi and Jim's house the night before for dinner .

In typical Kirsch style, there was food for 30 to feed the 11 of us attending. It's as if he is constant state of readiness on the odd chance that large family of hungry Jews happens to wonder past his door. But if a group did suddenly make a suprise appearance, they would be welcomed in and treated to quite a feast.

It's kind of strange not having Kimmy or Teddy there, but it's just not possible with them off to college. Time shoots by at speeds that rival the electrons swirling through the Large Hadron Collider, as memories are stored, put away till a time when they will be more precious than the worries of today.

I have at least 800 hours of video, of which greater than 90% of it remains unwatched. I have this vision of me sitting in front of a screen viewing hour after hour, proclaiming "That was what was going on while I was so busing filming it for a later date."

A date that I fear is fast approaching.

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While Lane assures me that he really likes going to Latin, and that he has made a lot of friends there, he still seems to depend on the friendships he made at Catherine Cook. I do wish he could add a few new names to the list. He seems to have found some realy good people at Latin, it's just tricky for him to move to a point where he has the same kind of comfort level he has with his CCS friends.

I can fully understand since, for one, they are a really exceptional group of kids. Lane has assembled a group, that without exception, are caring, loyal friends that share a bond built on years of trust. They all have drive and take pride in their work; as a parent I could not possibly wish for a better group of people to surround Lane.

Perhaps I can understand his desire to hold fast to his group, since Ilene and I have happly done the same.
We have been so luckly to find that this "exceptional group of kids" come equiped with parents that have become the core of our social life.
This friday night, while the boys were out celibrating davy's birthday, some of us had dinner and drinks at a small noodle shop.