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The "Twilight" Zone

Hold your nose and join me for a literary analysis of a series that would serve mankind better as mulch in our gardens. Click HERE what it's all about...

 

  "Enlighten the Gentiles"

Yiddish words and phrases to amuse and confuse.
The latest entry explains a little about the expression Mazel Tov, and about a reason to use it. And you'll find the archives HERE . Read and enjoy...... 

 

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The Man (of the House): The love of my life. Severely addicted to books (that take up WAYYYY too much space in our house) and raw garlic. We've been married 15 years, but involved for many more. Long story....

Our Kids:
SC:  Age 14. Book addicted like both her parents. Serious, but with a nice sense of humor. Well mannered in the eyes of the world, but at home,it can be another story--she's a teenager(!)

JR: Age 10  I think of her as a Disney Princess's evil twin. All the eccentricity of both sides of the family wrapped up in a sweet little body and an adorable smile. People find her a darling. I do too, but I also find her exhausting!

The Beasts: Our 2 cats, both adopted from animal rescue. "Bart" is a big, solid black, total teddy bear of a cat. Our brown tabby queeen "Bella" is  in love with The Man, though she seems to like me too!

Me: Children's librarian by day, tired keeper of all of the above by night. When I think of my life, I think of Nicole Hollander (Sylvia)'s immortal line about things that are easier than combining a family and a career. Like swimming the Amazon covered in peanut butter....

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    Flight 93

    « H E LibraryLady :: email
    posted Fri, 04/28/06

    Sorry to those of you who have heard me rant on these things before, but the fact is I keep ranting about it because it IS a fact of my life...............

    I don't want to see "Flight 93".

    I heard a woman on a radio show saying we all need to see this movie, so we'll remember what happened.

    Lady, maybe out there in Podunk, YOU need to relive it.

    I don't.

    Every time I drive by the Pentagon, I remember the smoke in the air in my neighborhood that lasted a week. I remember having to drive a different route so my little girl wouldn't see the destruction, and I wouldn't have to share the horror with her.

    Every time I go home to NYC I see the skyline minus the Twin Towers, and I remember how they were always the first sight of home. Gone forever, and all those people with them.

    I am SURE that people in Shanksville, PA go past the site of the crash, and remember the horror of that day, and that it only takes the smallest things to bring it all back again.

    Yes,I know there are people for whom this may be honestly cathartic--people who went through 9-11 and lost people they loved and find this part of the grief process.

    I know that there are flag waving, yellow ribbon bumper stickered "patriots" who have been having their jingoistic energies sapped lately by the chaos their fearless leaders have perpetrated on this country. And perhaps this film will give them a fresh dose of self-righteousness so they can go on believing that giving up our civil liberties will make us safe from terrorism, and that  perpetrating war in the name of security is making us safer!!

    It's not. And it's those sort of folks and the people who are leading them that make me more fearful than ever!

    So I won't be watching this movie.

    I'd rather be working in my garden, or playing with my kids, or anything else that reminds me of the good things we have every day in the world.

    I don't need a reminder of the fear and worry. I don't need a movie to help me to remember.

    There are things in my world to remind me of 9-11 every day............

     

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