In which I talk a lot about stuff

[brightlotusmoon]

Bright eyed, bushy haired, bright colors, babbling due to painkillers and happy muscle relaxants and healing gemstones and all that weird pseudoscience silliness that I believe in despite my atheist agnostic upbringing

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[dungeonwriter]

A huge hug to my ethnically part Jewish sister! (I figure if you're partially tribal, you're part of the family)

[brightlotusmoon]

Hi, sister!

[dungeonwriter]

Hugs!

[brightlotusmoon]

Hugs back!

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, but her mother was a closet Christian Scientist and my mom became atheist. Heh.
My Dad, whose family is Roman Catholic (Sicilian/Greek), is agnostic, so I was raised to believe in myself and my brain.
But my mother made damn sure I knew all about my ethnic Jewish heritage, and I am damn proud to announce that I am ethnically half Jewish.

I just can't really get with any religion, Judaism included. I mean, would that make me a "non-practicing Jew" or "just ethnically Jewish" or... see I'm not sure.

My husband, whose parents are both Jewish (they practice parts of the religion but they also celebrate Christmas and such), told me that we are considered non-white and I never knew that! I once told a census taker, when it came to the question about race, that I was half White and half Jewish, and we both got confused. Then, Adam explained that there are... reasons... why Jewish is not included as a race.

[phoenixsansfyr]

Have you read Jacqueline Carey? Starting with the Kushiel books....

[brightlotusmoon]

I've read bits and pieces of the Kushiel books...

[phoenixsansfyr]

The bit about love reminded me of Elua's precept - Love as thou wilt :)

[jimmy_book]

I don't comment here much, but I do follow your posts. It was neat to see you looking and sounding so happy. You would make a great vlogger.

[brightlotusmoon]

Aw, thanks! I'm a little too shy to be a vlogger, so I'll stick to Facebook for now, occasionally embedding Facebook videos into LiveJournal. :-)