After The Fall: Balance Beam As Metaphor
New York Jewish Week, The, July, 2008 by Meyers, Dvora
A few months ago, I walked from my Upper West Side apartment to Madison Square Garden carrying a sandwich, a bottle of water and two tickets to the American Cup, an international gymnastics competition held annually. Round-trip, it was a 140-block jaunt on a sunny winter day, not bad for a long one, though I would've preferred to sleep in and arrive in a third of the time via subway. But it was Shabbos morning and walking was the only way to see the world's best gymnasts in-person less than six months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Now, some of you might be thinking - haven't I already read this in The New Yorker? You know, the piece by Shalom Auslander about his hilarious and angry 14-mile trek from Teaneck, N.J. to the Garden to watch the Rangers in the 1994 Stanley Cup...
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