Friday four (morning thoughts, that is)
Apr. 4th, 2003 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidDespite the snow/ice overnight, and raininess yesterday, there seems to have been progress made in the mural the florist is putting on the side of his building. It features lots of flowers/vegetation (no surprise), and he's made a big grid to fill. I'm curious to see how what's there already gets linked together, and what colors get used (right now, most of what's done is in white, which I suppose is what they need to do first, since the background wall is dark brown).
I found it interesting that when I cleared off the car, there were folds of ice-snow that had slid off the hood and gently folded in front of the headlights. It was satisfying to break through the crust, finding the air pockets below.
I'm having strange dissonance hearing war news. On the one hand, there's Iraq, and Saddam Hussein (not to mention his eponymous airport), both definitely in the herenow. On the other hand, there's the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and military legions named for Hamurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, which makes me think of the Biblical and first Temple periods, expecting all sorts of things that Just Don't Happen these days, religious epiphanies that change the world, or miracles, or something. It feels like there's two stories overlaying one another, which seem to become mixed up at times. Perhaps it's just my not-old-enough-to-have-really-long-history American sensibilities coming into play again.
Another thing I saw at the kosher market: oven mitts and such made with matza patterns on them. Right next to the special sponges that are around $2.50 a pop. Passover shopping can be such a scam...
I found it interesting that when I cleared off the car, there were folds of ice-snow that had slid off the hood and gently folded in front of the headlights. It was satisfying to break through the crust, finding the air pockets below.
I'm having strange dissonance hearing war news. On the one hand, there's Iraq, and Saddam Hussein (not to mention his eponymous airport), both definitely in the herenow. On the other hand, there's the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and military legions named for Hamurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, which makes me think of the Biblical and first Temple periods, expecting all sorts of things that Just Don't Happen these days, religious epiphanies that change the world, or miracles, or something. It feels like there's two stories overlaying one another, which seem to become mixed up at times. Perhaps it's just my not-old-enough-to-have-really-long-history American sensibilities coming into play again.
Another thing I saw at the kosher market: oven mitts and such made with matza patterns on them. Right next to the special sponges that are around $2.50 a pop. Passover shopping can be such a scam...
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Date: 2003-04-04 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-04 07:20 am (UTC)Chametz-free bagel mitts
Date: 2003-04-04 07:27 am (UTC)I am so sure that I know people who would choose to keep the bagel mitts far away from their Pesach cooking :-(.
Heck, I have friends who have the Placemat of Constipation: squares and rectangles marked out to show the minimum area for the mitzvot of matza and maror (different sized depending on whether you use romaine leaves only or the stalks only). Of course, it's that volume vs. area issue again. (I stopped going to their house for seder after I saw that; I can figure out how much matza I'm going to eat on my own, thankyouverymuch!)
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Re: Chametz-free bagel mitts
Date: 2003-04-04 12:07 pm (UTC)I wish you were joking, but I strongly suspect you're not.
Re: Placemat
Date: 2003-04-04 12:25 pm (UTC)It wouldn't've bothered me nearly as much if it hadn't been presented as "now we will measure out your matza and maror for you." That's just irksome. If it had been "now we have this thing you can use if you want," I'd've declined, still thought it bizarre, but not as annoying.