Wordless Wednesday, Sort of: Puppy Love at Thanksgiving
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| Grandma Spends Thanksgiving with Her Newest Grandpuppy - and the rest of us |
The Ruth Project: Part 1
Seeds: From Another Garden
i think this project
actually began last November. Eva Etzioni-Halevy's novels in our
local library may have been its genesis.
Actually it was the
not-Ruth novel, The Song of Hannah,
that i read first. It upended all i had been taught about Hannah,
Elkanah's the barren wife. Wasn't she the first, older wife? And
Peninnah the sharp-tongued, the second, younger wife, mother of
Elkanah's children?
Well, yes, to some of
the assumptions. Peninnah has the children, she makes Hannah's life
miserable (but maybe Hannah would've been miserable without Peninnah's
needling? i can totally see Peninnah's "needling" as an attempt to say Hannah had the better lot in life.)
Etzioni-Halevy's novel turns the situation on its
head. She depicts Hannah, at her best friend Pninah's
wedding, determining to also marry the attractive groom.
The The Garden of Ruth had a similarly unsuspected premise:
Wordless Wednesday: What Candles?
And now, this is what we have left.
Now all is said & done. . . .
Yeah right. Anyway, the election is over.
It's been weird in lots of ways. Congratualations to the hard work of volunteers to get people to the polls. Which led to another weirdness: as i was struggling to get ready & out the door, a volunteer called me to remind me to vote.
Seems like most everyone i voted for lost. Not surprising, considering my fondness for 3rd parties, and things in general.
i was mainly sad that the candidate whom i perceived as slinging the most mud - first - won his race.
But i've never really had a major candidate i supported win. There were lots whom i thought would, in office, be the ruin of us all. And everyone was better than i expected.
May it be so this time also.
It's been weird in lots of ways. Congratualations to the hard work of volunteers to get people to the polls. Which led to another weirdness: as i was struggling to get ready & out the door, a volunteer called me to remind me to vote.
Seems like most everyone i voted for lost. Not surprising, considering my fondness for 3rd parties, and things in general.
i was mainly sad that the candidate whom i perceived as slinging the most mud - first - won his race.
But i've never really had a major candidate i supported win. There were lots whom i thought would, in office, be the ruin of us all. And everyone was better than i expected.
May it be so this time also.
Election Day
Even if you can't decide which candidate might be "the lesser of two evils," get out there & vote.
There's lots of other offices to fill, and some of us have issues, judges, or school boards to vote for or against.
Make sure you count.
Wordless Wednesday, Part 2: Max as a Toddler
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| maybe 1 year, more or less? |
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