8:42 am
Saturday
Feb 26
Sunrise Sunset
filed under: going to hell
new free online game is beta testing nice improvements on the original
I found some cute needle holders. I’ll knit but I won’t sew.
Fiddler on the Roof is on. I love this movie. It’s a part of my childhood. My parents had the broadway album and we had all kinds of big skirts and gypsy-looking clothes (a lot of it was old square dancing costumes from Nana I think) and I used to dress up and spin around in them. And I remember a stage production of it at the JCC in 76 or 78. Was my sister in it or just one of her friends?
We used to have a membership there and used the pool almost all summer. Their snowcones were like a berry gelato.
It’s very hard to describe the strong Jewish influences we grew up with in Birmingham. It’s not a community that people would associate with Alabama. But the neighborhood we lived in particularly had a very active community. Matzos in the cafeteria during passover. Learning the Dreidel song right along with The Twelve Days of Christmas. I came *this close* to converting at one point. But that was because of a boyfriend and I just don’t think religion should be based on whom you’re fucking. Just one of my crazy little ideas. It did start me on the idea that Christianity is not exactly for me which inspired a lot of reading and study about world religions and religious histories. Which I usually examine in a more sociological way than actually believing in any of it.
But as cynical as I am about a lot of organized religions, I keep a pretty healthy amount of respect for Judaism.
Anyway, I was just thinking about how the fiddler might represent God. Or Tevye’s imagination of God. Probably not a new concept but I hadn’t thought about it before.
That rayon boucle is evil for n00b knitters. I was getting extremely frustrated so today I started a cream colored stockingette scarf with hearts done in a seed stitch. It won’t be as cutesy country kitchen as it sounds but probably traditional enough to give to my mother-in-law for her belated birthday present.
Another Fiddler on the Roof fan here too. I played one of the sisters in a school version despite having an awful voice.
The tea site is delicious, my heart’s all a-flutter at the wagenfeld teapot.