New York State
Seven Thousand Lives Lost
Seven Thousand Lives Lost
4.9.2020
Maundy Thursday
5 a.m
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
6 p.m.
7 p.m.
Virtual Mass
Joining my friend Michael Beiser on line
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NYC
9 p.m
Walk about
(masked and gloved)
Just to keep those muscles working.
Found
Sitting at the curb a few blocks away.
Not a soul in sight
I will plant it in the street pot I tend.
Find the waning moon East 21st Street
~*~
4.10.2020
Good Friday
The Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday.
The St John Passion, performed by the Nederlands Bach Society for All of Bach, was the first Passion Bach had written as cantor in Leipzig. The Passion story as told in the Gospel of John is different from that told by the other three evangelists – Matthew, Luke and Mark. John’s version places the emphasis on Christ’s divine origin. Throughout his suffering, this divine origin still plays a role and nowhere is Jesus as human as in the other gospels.
(2 hours)
The Mail
My Friends Book arrived
"Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypt's 75,000-strong Jewish population left the country, compelled by growing hostility to them because of their presumed links to Zionism, economic insecurity, and after 1956, overt expulsion. Decades later, during the 1980s and 1990s, the personal reminiscences of eight Egyptian Jewish women, presently residents of New York who had left Egypt, were meticulously collected by Nayra Atiya. While Atiya's sample of eight narrators represents only a tiny percentage of the Jews who left Egypt, their accounts tell us much about the middle- and upper-class Jews who migrated to the Americas and Europe, giving us a vivid sense of their lives in Egypt before their departure and the dynamic role they played in Egyptian society. They were the children or grandchildren of generations of Jews who migrated to Egypt from around or near the Mediterranean to escape economic hardship and persecution or, in one case, a family conflict.
With one exception, Atiya's interlocutors resided in relatively upscale neighborhoods in Egypt near other Jewish families. They lived in elegant apartments, with servants, fine foods, memberships in elite clubs, and summers spent near Alexandria or in Europe. In Zikrayat, Atiya movingly captures the essence of these women's characters and experiences, the fabric of their day-to-day lives, and the complex, many-layered mood of those times in Egypt. In doing so she brings to life the ties that bind all Egyptians, offering a glimpse into a now vanished world--and the heartbreak of exile and migration."
Wisdom Sangha
Despite the excellent phone help of Alex G., I was unable to download the Zoom from my zendo (New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care) at 6:30 tonight. Never-mind how many times I tried to access Zoom, sign up for an account....but, I will probably get to see/hear it at some future date. Meanwhile the 7:00 p.m. hooting and clapping of my neighborhoods nightly appreciation for all our necessary workers just erupted and all's well in my heart.
(still my favorite)
Late Night Walk
with JoAnn F.
We met at Epiphany Church
(two weird shots)
Got some supplies and walked back to our separate homes.
Her gift to me
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(((Michelle)))
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