About an hour ago, the sun set, not that anyone here in Seattle would have known the difference in today's unusually stereotypical weather. This marked the start of Yom Kippur, for which I will be fasting until sunset tomorrow ( Read more... )

Well, the fiery sunset this evening ushered in the Jewish New Year, 5771. There are a lot of customs associated with this, of which I've only ever kept a few.

( the ones I do at least some years )

Canterbury Cathedral, Christchurch (NZ), is one of the very loveliest religious buildings I've ever been inside. Not because its architecture is all that remarkable-it looks like a small town church in Britain, to me-but because of the collection of artefacts and decoration inside. There's a general theme of bringing together common elements from ( Read more... )