Recommended by a friend of a friend, it was warm and welcoming, with family photos on the walls and a diverse clientele: a sharply dressed father and his teenage children, gray-haired ladies, guys wearing paint-splattered jeans.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — There are no pews at Tikkun Leil Shabbat, no rabbis, no one with children or gray hair.
But the Bay Area, perhaps still under the thrall of flower children grown gray, has yet to welcome a meat temple of its own.
Another activity addresses how artists make paintings appear three-dimensional through shading, teaching children about gray scales, cross-hatching and light sources.
There were also other children in gray tracksuits and many in street clothes.
Finally, recent evidence has suggested that severe hypoglycemia in children alters gray matter density (22), analogous to what has been reported in young adults with type 1 diabetes (25).
The engineer's family was there: his grown children, his gray-haired parents.
The sheets were bloodstained; at moments, the wind briefly blew off one of the sheets, revealing the body of a small child, wearing gray pants.
Half a day in the middle of the sea, while everyone around you drinks their weight in gin and tonics, is quite full-on for any child whose gray matter is still a mush of jelly and strawberries.
She got up on her elbows and saw the clotted child, stiff and gray, the barley-rope cord, and the afterbirth.
