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Apparently the weirdness with former spouses is contagious--ExWife#2 has gotten in on the fun. For one thing, she sent me some pics of herself in a corset. It's not that I object to this as a practice or anything...but it is apparently my sister's corsette that she was wearing.
For another thing, she has decided to become Jewish--a conversion from non-practicing pagan--for no apparent reason. This leaves me with the following things in my brain:
(1) Huh?
(2) Will this make it more likely or less likely that I get more corset pictures?
(3) What the hell is my little sister doing with a corset, anyway?
(4) But Ex-Wife#2 doesn't look Jewish....
(5) If the Israelis had bombed Pearl Harbor, would they have yelled "TORAH! TORAH! TORAH!" as they attacked?
I forgot to post this but Stephen Nasser came to my school and talked about the horrors of the brutal killing of Jews..The Holocaust. His whole family was wiped out by the Nazis, all but him..
He had and aunt why had a baby that didn't breast feed any more, Stephen told her to pretend she was breast feeding her baby..the Nazis took the baby away from her..She was upset and ran after the man that took her child..She scratched his face, hard enough to make him bleed. Another Nazi took her and held her back..the one she injured took the baby..went over to a box car and..smashed the childs her between the tire and the tracks..
He asked us, when we go home..to give our parent/s a big hug..because for many, MANY years...he couldn't give a family member a hug...
Please even those that don't pray or believe in god, Pray for Stephen and his lost family and those Jewish people that lost their lives..just because they were Jewish...
But before I do: Tonight began the Jewish holiday of Purim, a day which chronicles the events as written in the Biblical Book (Scroll) of Esther The synopsis: About 2500 years ago the Persian King Achashverosh, overcome with impulse, drunkenness and horniness, banished his queen (Vashti) for not participating in Half-Nekkid Thursday in front of his friends. He produces a reality show to find the most beautiful woman in the land to be his new queen -- and it turns out to be a Jewish chick named Esther. Her uncle, a bloke called Mordechai, tells her to keep the Jewish thing a secret. Meanwhile, The King's #2 guy is a pompous ass called "Haman." He has a run-in with Mordechai one day and, because Mordechai refuses to bow down to him, he sets a decree to kill all the Jews on, drawn by lottery, the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar (today). There's more of a story to it, but the climax is that Esther reveals her true identity to the king and pleads to spare the life of the Jews, and Haman and his family were hung on a tree instead.
So -- as you can surmise it's a great holiday for the kiddies.
It's as close as one can get to a Jewish Halloween: kids (and adults) dress up in costumes. I'll post pictures of myself and the kid in our homemade costumes. His was far better than mine: he was Buzz Lightyear in a costume designed and sewn by the lovely socKs. I was the "Can you hear me now? Good!"guy from the Verizon wireless commercials.
It's also a holiday where it's traditional to get extremely drunk -- prescribed to the extent that one not be able to distinguish good from evil (more literally, distinguish between the evil Haman and the hero, Mordechai). I'm zonked after ... oh, zero to drink this evening. I'm getting old...
Two videos if you're interested -- both are raps. The first one was animated by Ben Baruch, who created the Shabot6000 online cartoon. Great stuff. the second one is new this year and... just make sure to watch the first one, k?
did you have to sing christmas carols in elementary school at holiday pagents? I did and while I never minded the holiday winter songs I was often offended by the christian content of the hard core carols.
so I would sing the songs- many are beautiful: Like Hark the Herald Angels sing... and when the word christ appeared I didn't sing that word because I have always been careful to say Jesus. I think it diminishes the theological elements of a holiday or observance when non believers participate fully. like I wouldn't take communion or make the sign of a cross in a catholic church but I would behave respectfully and even light a candle. would and have.
and when visiters to my temple come I would expect them to stand in respect for the torah when it is removed from the ark but I wouldn't want them kissing it, wearing tefillin or a tallit- a head covering is ok because that's custom not halachah.
anyway this all came to mind when i pulled up in front of the post office to mail a netflix film and I saw two rose bushes still in bloom. one yellow and one red. set in very sunny surroundings with asphalt heating them up..
My two hedges of camellia sasanquas are blooming and the hummming birds are having a great time visiting their yellow and red blooms. and berries on the salal and kinnikinnik are attractive to the birds too. and of course the juncos and chickadees are having a ball in the thickets that are the piles of wood and kindling being cured for next winter.
Jim is doing better. snot is more a problem than blood now and he is getting about and making snacks. for dinner I gave him over cooked ravioli in a black olive pesto and very overcooked carrots and prunes- sorta like a tsimmes. tomorrow I may cook some stollen and some cookies for my brother near DC as he doesn't have Margit this winter to help him stay fat.
Now I am closing down the fireplace , turning off the lights on the tree ( we have one t of those nifty foot switches- and abi and I will race upstairs so I can hide her treats. What a difference this week from last. phew !!
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