Ah ...Passover, Sun, Gina, Awards, More...

Hi Everyone,

Thanks so much for your patience. Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. Things have been flying!

First off, We had a wonderful Passover. No guests which is always a bummer, but it was good because we got to focus on the kids. Passover is the time when we all sit at the table --in our case, we do it Yemenite style so we have a low table. We basically take out the legs of the coffee table and put on a beautiful tablecloth -- and tell the kids the story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt. We all sat on the carpet and had pillows to lean on.

There are different foods to represent different things such as the yummy charoses (dates, almonds and wine ground together) to remind us of good things, bitter herbs (we used beet leaves) to remind us of the afflictions in Egypt, etc.

Then all the kids fell asleep around the table. It was sweet!

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Earlier that day was the blessing of the sun. I wrote briefly about that on the previous post. My sister went to a synogogue to say the blessing with a whole group of people. Its the synagogue of a famed rabbi (Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu). What a treat! When his car came to pick him up, men were all dancing in the streets in front of his car. I wish I was there to see it. Tzitzit/fringes flying as they jumped and danced to make him happy. Then when he was settled in his car, the dancing men parted (the the Sea of reeds lol) and the car drove off.

It made me think of the Psalm 148 in which it says "praise Him sun and moon..." Some say this Psalms is referring to stars as righteous people, Sun and Moon, leaders, mountains are yet another analogy, etc. I thought of the rabbi. Maybe it was those people's day to praise God. lol.

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There is a really interesting conversation going on at Gina's blog, What About Our Daughters. Its about Tyler Perry and his movies. I haven't seen them, but apparently the running theme is (1) alot of them star himself as Madea, a heavy set church going woman with an anger problem (?) (2) Successful black folks are harsh, conniving, any other negative adjective. The deeper problem is the negative impact these singularly and unhealthy portrayals have on BW at large.

Its interesting all the points that gets made there. I yearn so much to help, but am still not quite sure where my niche is. I am beginning to suspect, in agreement with my husband, that my strength is more in praising and hopefully pointing out the beauty in BF more than fighting any enemy we may have.

As a side topic, I was (still am) a bit infuriated at a particular commentator ("Uh Me-I guess") this white guy who goes on her blog and joins in on the topics. The fact that a white guy is participating in these topics is not what's disturbing, its his patronizing tone that just gets me. I feel so tempted to say something but hubby cautioned me that he might do some relative good in the long run. For example, that he might hear two other white folks talking, perhaps in a degrading way about BW and he could chime in that he's seen them trying to do something about social problem x.

I don't know. If he can talk in such a patronizing way on that blog, why not especially to his other white friends?

Aaaarrrrggggg!!!! Okay. What can I do. Perhaps, there is some benefit. 999... 998... 997.....

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There has been some really disturbing news out there as of late. Left and right, I 'm hearing about these unfortunate murders in which people shoot down whole families or a bunch of people and then kill themselves. Sheesh! I wish they would just cut to the chase and kill themselves first!

But what does it mean? What's going on in the USA?

And then there was the earthquake in Italy. God help them.

And why oh why did those Somalian Pirates have to mess with the US ships?

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Thanks Anxious Black Woman for the Splash Award!!! That is going to be the next post.

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And finally, we are officially homeless! lol. We just sold our place and have a certai amount of time to move out. that was the main thing that kept me from blogging, showing the place, keeping it emmaculate for the potential buyers. *whew!* Now its all over.

Anyway, hopefully I'll be back on schedule soon.