So far, I only have talked about the latest war in Israel with a handful of people who more or less agree with me, Israel good, Israel should exist, peace in the Middle East would be really nice but unlikely with the virulent antisemitism of, well, the rest of the Middle East.

But more often now, I’m hearing the opinions of the pro-Palestine people ( Read more... )

There is so much good in my life, there is so much happy, there is so much going well and so much promise for new friendships and continuing closeness with old.

But my heart got kicked in this morning, and I have to write about that.

Friday night, I went to a seder at Amanda's house.  It's the same Amanda I spoke of about a year ago here, where I ( Read more... )

Crossposted from Facebook (and back again, 'cause why not ( Read more... )

Goddammit. To add to my irate mood, I forgot to reup my eljay subscription, and I only have five userpics to choose from. I could reup now, but I'm posting so rarely, I'm not sure if I should? I'll think more on it. Wish I'd gotten a permanent account, way back in the day ( Read more... )

Hine ma tovu manahim,
Shevet acheem gamyachad.I woke up with that old Jewish round in my head, and it hasn't stopped. Guess that's a cue to write about the Shabbos dinner ( Read more... )

I feel a little lighter this morning, with all of that built-up garbage out in the world. I have to remember that describing pain can be as refreshing as marking down my moments of joy ( Read more... )

The first Christmas mass I ever attended was at the end of 1997, in Mackay, Queensland, Australia. I don't know the denomination, but the sermon was definitely one of those hellfire and damnation rants that I used to think was all Christian sermons. Part of it stuck with me, because I was so amused. The priest was going on about how Christians ( Read more... )

I took a circuitous route towards Episcopalianism. I think I would've come more directly had it not been for the things that some bigoted people love to repeat. No need to re-repeat them here, but it's yet another case of some subset of a group doing or believing something awful, therefore the whole group is terrible ( Read more... )

The thirteenth post, ah yes. Thirteen is one of my lucky numbers, there's something lovely about threes and ones, especially when they appear together ( Read more... )

Last night, Tiger brought me out to hang with a bunch of his best friends, which I've spent very little time with. Tiger warned me that his buddy Charlie was kind of extreme, loud and with an edgy sense of humor ( Read more... )