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Posted on April 21, 2020 3 Comments
You would think that after everything I’ve written about quidditch, writing this would be easy. The days I’ve stared at my monitor trying to write this post would tell you otherwise. Go read what I’ve written about this sport before if you’re looking for more that.
Let’s talk about Right Now. Right Now sucks. Right Now has so many demands upon us. Upon our finances, our attention, our mental health. Right now is a lot.
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Posted on April 9, 2020 1 Comment
It’s Palm Sunday as I start writing this, or in more secular terms, the Sunday before Easter. The name comes from the fact that at the beginning of the week that would end with Jesus dead and secreted into a borrowed tomb, the people of Jerusalem welcomed him, waving palm fronds as he passed. Within the week, many of those people would be watching the Crucifixion.
While I am lapsed in some ways, I still count myself a Catholic. This week marks the yearly apex of my faith. My favorite Mass is the one on Holy Thursday when the pastor reenacts the Last Supper, right down to washing twelve people’s feet. On Good Friday, my parish reenacts the Passion (I was the Portuguese narrator a few times as a teen and I still have snippets of the script burned into my brain) and has a funeral possession afterward that seems a bit much to my American friends but is straight out of the old country Azorean playbook.
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