Tag: ceremony
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Veterans Day 2015
We have come to the time in the year’s changing that our thoughts turn to those who have fought on behalf of their countries. Mine turn to my father, uncles, cousins, and step-fathers. My father held the precarious position of being proud for his service in three wars, and being profoundly disturbed by, and suspicious…
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Ancestors, Ceremony, and Trauma
Today dawned gray and wet. We took advantage of the clock change, and slept in. Now, to the west the low overcast is raising. The oaks have turned abruptly; the maples have largely dropped their leaves and the breeze moves their bare branches. It is the sort of day that Thomas Hardy celebrated when he…
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An Easter Walk
Last night we held out family Sedar, the Passover meal at which we remember the Jewish people’s Exodus from slavery, and the many people who are oppressed today. As we sit together, we think carefully about the strategies of oppression that abide in our world, and the duty of each generation to confront them. Then…
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Christmas
Christmas Day. I’ve been in bed with a virus for the past couple of days, so I probably should not have been surprised when I awoke this morning at 3:30. (My nose looks a lot like Rudolph’s.) Eventually I got out of bed and wandered through the dark house to the sun room, where I…
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