Nested Holidays, Counting, and Online Libraries for Empathy

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The common good, and access to all sorts of FREE libraries, must become more fully inclusive for all of us.  Below, one volunteer-driven online library provides free access to many diverse Jewish texts and teachings, this one centered on two current holidays.

My update for  April 12022/5782, with my own Nested Themes for each day of the Omer:

  1. Empathy and health care as the first night of #counting the harvest, first week: empathy, of seven weeks of growing…
  2. Tonight, the second night of harvest #counting: #empathy and #housing for all…
  3. On this third day of harvest #counting, #empathy and accessible, affordable, and safe train #transport for all…
  4. Counting this fourth harvest day of working to Do Better for #empathy and #hope. We can end poverty, we can end homelessness, and we can Do Better.   …   Empathy, and hope for Ending Poverty via Free Consumer and Debt Related…

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La ricetta del giorno

Napoli ieri oggi e domani

Canapè di asparagi e uova

Ingredienti: asparagi grossi 1 kg, 8 uova, 8 fette di pane a cassetta, parmigiano grattugiato, burro, sale, pepe.

Esecuzione: pulire gli asparagi eliminando gli steli duri, immergerli in piedi in una pentola alta con acqua fredda salata lasciando fuori le punte e lessarli con il coperchio a fiamma moderata per 15 minuti finché saranno teneri.

Sgocciolarli e tenerli in caldo.

In una padella antiaderente fondere il burro, rosolarvi le fette di pane e metterle da parte, poi, aggiungendo dell’altro burro, rompervi le uova intere e cuocerle a occhio di bue con un pizzico di sale e di pepe.

In ogni piatto individuale mettere due fette di pane, distribuirvi sopra le punte di asparagi e su ogni fetta un uovo fritto.

Cospargere i canapè con parmigiano grattugiato e irrorarli di burro fuso al momento di servirli.

Accompagnare il piatto con una fresca insalata.

Buon appetito

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Invest In Our Planet

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: mohamed mahmoud hassan

Join the world’s largest environmental movement today. Earth Day is observed annually on April 22, yet we should make every day Earth Day! The Earth Day 2022 Theme is “Invest In Our Planet.” Don’t have a clue where to begin? Well, look no farther. Just click on this link for 52 actions and tips to make a difference, every day of the year.

Image Credit: Linnaea Mallette

Each one of us can do something and you don’t need money to do so. We simply need to have the desire because the opportunity is right in front of our faces. #InvestInOurPlanet on #EarthDay and stamp this theme on our hearts, in our minds, and through our daily actions, regardless of the season.

Image Credit: Linnaea Mallette

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Invest in our Planet

The Twisting Tail

The earth is what we all have in common

Wendell Berry

…until we colonize
the Moon and Mars
Then let the rivalry begin


Tricky Dick
Felt the move
Protection was a must
And it helped
To cover-up
A latex thin veil of trust

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was approved by President Richard Nixon in 1970 as a result of the Earth Day movement. Legislation on clean air, clean water, toxic substances, and endangered species were passed, too.

‘Cause I’m
(E.P.A.) No dynamite
(E.P.A.) Fight the fair fight
(E.P.A.) We have a code
(E.P.A.) Repair the erode


A green future is a prosperous future


Hay(na)ku: home

Sing
Our praises
On Mother’s day

The Earth Day Anthem was written in 2013 by Indian poet Abhay Kumar, and has since been recorded in all official UN languages. Link: Here

No greater anthem
Can be . than one
Which unites us all


sustainability…

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Shots and Sirens #atozchallenge #Ukraine

penned in moon dust

It was days but it felt like weeks before we saw Vlad and his boys. They all were wearing the ugly tshirts that we had bought at the beginning of our journey before we even knew about a portal.

“We are getting in…” Vlad whispered to my husband. “two or three men only. But we are getting food in and children and babushkas out.”

I put a chair behind Vlad and he immediately slumped into it. I gave him some borscht and brown bread. I had gotten pretty good at making this Ukrainian staple.

I went around to all the men giving them their food and pointing to where they could clean up and rest after dinner. None of the guys complained though there was grime and blood and bruises all over their bodies.

“Vlad what happened…” My husband rushed into the church frantic.

Vlad held up the hand that…

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French Fridays, Libraries, and Empathy for Ants?

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Libraries are where the librarians, who find obscure bits of local knowledge, and make great book recommendations live!  This book is among the best books I have read, but I must say that the rule of the first holds: the rest of the books in the series went downhill.  Werber’s other books, too, were interesting from a philosophical point of view, but increasingly irritating as metaphysical works.  This one, however, I am half considering reading again! 

-back in 2015:

Les Fourmis (La saga des fourmis, #1)Les Fourmis by Bernard Werber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Don’t kill any more ants!!
This book is worth learning French to read. Honestly. It had me worrying for the fate of an ant by page 40! Fascinating swap of perspectives, and hair-raising cliff-hanger ending. I have the 3rd book in this trilogy, but am anxiously waiting to get the 2nd from the library!

Ne tuez plus de fourmis !

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