Do Not Compete with Evil Doers

© KJ Hannah Greenberg, 2025

Do Not Compete with Evil Doers.
Seashell Books, USA.
Dec. 29, 2025.
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Retirement age is often about empty nesting and grandchildren. In some cases, it is equally about war, facing down international prejudices, and coping with increased disability. Likewise, getting older might bring along late applications of professional skills, newfound gratitude for being alive and for the small and large miracles that constitute daily existence, and a measure of nostalgia for personal and social history. Do Not Compete with Evil Doers explores all of these topics.

Preface
Introduction: On the Road Again
1. Consciousness
1.1 “Youthful” Delights
1.2 Suburban Snacks and Other Uses of Neighborhood Plants
1.3 Of Spirals and Paper Chains
1.4 Spring Thing
1.5 Madame Dictionary
1.6 Changes
1.7 Shopping
1.8 This-A-Way and That-A-Way
1.9 The Way of Flowers
1.10 From Guns to Chicken Wings
1.11 Things Gone Missing
1.12 Difficult Family Members
1.13 A House, A Car, and a Chicken
1.14 From Complications of Multiple Sclerosis to Revealed Miracles
1.15 Dead Friends and Mentors
3.16 Indeterminate
2. Social Consciousness
2.1 More Irrational Tendencies
2.2 Keeping the Baby when Tossing the Bath Water
2.3 Small Kindnesses
2.4 Extending Oneself in Serving Hashem: “Parsha Shemot”
2.5 Overcoming Sinat Chinam: An Elul Reflection
2.6 Portioning Out A Cup of Water: Surmounting Self-Righteousness
2.7 Borrowers’ Responsibilities
2.8 An Unexpected Teacher
2.9 Treating Animals with Dignity
2.10 Cat Cat’s Woes
2.11 Stimming
2.12 Heterogenous “Trices.”
2.13 Active vs. Passive Reading
2.14 Existential Semiotics: A Review
2.15 Anything: A Review
2.16 To See: “Parsha Re’eh”
3. Morality and Consciousness
3.1 Our Demanding Parsha
3.2 Aliyah Anniversary: Part One
3.3 Aliyah Anniversary: Part Two
3.4 Every Four Amot
3.5 Israel’s Sense of Agency
3.6 The Enigmas Inherent in Current, Horrific Occurrences
3.7 Strategic Conquest
3.8 Bullies
3.9 Pariahs and Publishers
3.10 Evacuees
3.11 More Steadfastness
3.12 The Quiet Birthed by Elul’s Introspection
3.13 Unusual Efforts and Other Necessities of the Yomim Noraim
3.14 Like Packing for a Trip
Glossary
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Other Books by KJ Hannah Greenberg