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Tag Archives: rituals
Festive Earworm
O holidays of promised liberation:One towards an earthly land,One to a place promised posthumously.In our hands, Questions: Which way now, How to mind the gap, Is home home? Exile exile? Do the two meet as two seas thatclash and shamble towards each other?
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Tagged deliverance, Easter, exile, home, Passover, rituals, wandering, wandering Jew
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Lunching in Morocco during Ramadan
To peer through the window, being Jewish, while the dominant culture celebrates its religious holiday; Christmas is the familiar scenario, but Ramadan a whole different thing. Three Ramadan weeks in Morocco, lunching in front of people who had woken at … Continue reading
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Tagged Eid, Morocco, Muslim-Jewish relations, religious difference, religious tolerance, rituals, travel
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The Home Groove
This past week I’ve been flashing on Penelope Fitzgerald’s scintillating descriptions of preparing a house. Her novel “Blue Flower,” set in the 18th century, is full of the bright crush of domestic detail, the half-laborious, half-ecstatic ritual of organizing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Flower, Covid, holiday home, holidays, Penelope Fitzgerald, rituals
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Solstice, burning bright
Solstice, winter, covid: we are close to the dark. Those winter days that swing between flat gray and blindingly bright gray work a subtle palette. During insomniac nights — at 3am, at 4am — I am close to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Covid-19, holidays of light, let there be light, light, rituals, Winter solstice
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RITES OF MAY
The RITES OF MAY to Don DeLillo The tail end of a violent semester parents rush in with their Suburbans a mixed bag of doubled emotions Living next to Brown I see the flying styrofoam pitched by mother in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown University, college, moving back home, rituals, university
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