Tag: time
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A Really Impressive Creation Story
We spent the past week or so being tourists in and around the Wisconsin Dells. The name “Dells” comes from a French word, dalles, that means “narrows.” It refers to the place where the Wisconsin River more or less squeezes through spectacular bluffs of layered sandstone on either side. They are really narrow in places.…
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Shehecheyanu
The girls are graduating from high school. It has required delicate logistical negotiations, because their graduations are on the same day, and too far apart, so yesterday we drove seven hours (round trip) to see our niece graduate from technical school, and some of the family will come to our daughter’s high school graduation and…
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Good Good New Year New Year
It’s a kind of double new year today, because according to my goyische calendars, today is Rosh Hashanah, although technically it began last night at 7:07 p.m., at least in Corydon, Indiana. Yesterday was also the first day of Muharram, according to MuslimPro, though there is always a little bit of iffiness about the beginning…
Matters of Interpretation 