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March 18, 2010 / 3 Nisan 5770

One-Shelf-A-Day-Until-Passover-Preparation-Log
A.K.A. The Dayenu Log

D-log Motto:  Okay, that’s enough for today.

Today: Thursday, March 18, 2010
3 Nisan 5770
I  cleaned the corner shelf and wondered about the origins of the food there.  So many places converged in one square foot: Italy, India, Israel, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Washington.  Some of these named field sources, others were distribution points.  Cereal, rice, pasta, cous cous, Tetra Pak milk, and vitamins came from the hands of a lot of other people.

Stress Relief Tip:
Choir practice satisfied us with new music to learn, shared strawberries, and strengthening hugs.

Spring Lookout News:
On the way home tonight’s new moon increased to a sliver and the Big Dipper tilted toward north.

Hard Core Treatments for Relief from Oppressive Cleaning Issues:
I notice the weeds sprouting by the mailbox and think about last year’s garden.  Cleaning and weeding link us to the elements.  Meditative movement calms me, and people passing by want to say hello or stop to talk.  Last year I wrote down one of those encounters.  Now I find it and pull it out to read…
As I was weeding my garden last evening, my next door neighbor showed me how his strawberry plants have spread since last year, and now he’s planting some raspberries.  He has a little daughter, who said, “Hi there!” to me out their kitchen window over the berry patch.  I told him as a little girl I used to visit my grandmother in Utah during summer, and how amazed I was the first time she said, “Get up, we’re picking strawberries and raspberries from the garden to eat with our breakfast cereal!”  He smiled and told me his grandmother came from Hungary, and she made great strudel and bread.

Go and Study:
During my early interest in studying Judaism, I went over to Janice Steinschneider’s house for lunch, so she could teach me the Four Questions for the seder.  She welcomed a stranger.  For her seder she compiled her own hagaddah, and passed around envelopes so everyone could send donations to Mazon.
Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger
10495 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 100
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone 1-800-813-0557

http://mazon.org/

B’shalom,
Amy Brookman
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