meme

Apr 07, 2006 16:34

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year. -- gakked from glaeliaFacts ( Read more... )

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virtual_rabbi April 7 2006, 21:50:02 UTC
Marat's murder is a fact, not a death?

Ben

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serendipidous April 7 2006, 22:04:30 UTC
shh...

Actually, it's listed under both, so I stuck it under the "facts" section in order to put Frida Kahlo under "deaths."

How are things with you?

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virtual_rabbi April 7 2006, 22:41:58 UTC
As Eeyore used to say, not very how..but it wouldn't be quite true. A wiseguy as ever as you can see from my questions. Shaken with the everyday is more like it, so I offer you this, a quick rendering of random thoughts, yourself included. Oh, and I really appreciate the forwards, I've been sending stuff.

Working the Other Side of the Shop
thinking of Pamela McNeil

Walking down the street in Detroit is different
than a dirt road in Alabama. Thirty years after
planting, the shallow Maples uproot the sidewalk
tilting crazy, try to ride my bike over it. Great
grandma died in ’61, right after Grandpa, they never
let me go to the funeral, just one day they said
he wasn’t there any more.

Hyssop? The only hyssop we ever used was dipped
in the blood of the lamb, our Passover sacrifice,
slapped on the doorpost and lintel, the sign
of a Jewish family. Most of us spent the rest
of that night under the bed waiting for the crash
of peasants against the glass shouting, “Zhidek!”through the broken shards ( ... )

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