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March 24, 2010 / 9 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: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
9 Nisan 5770
What is this sticky tape hanging down into the cooking utensils drawer? Then the manufacturer’s label under the stove top came all the way off.

Stress Relief Tip:
The sink is crumbling and the stove top also needs replacing.  Nevertheless, food is prepared here with love that spreads to every sinew.  Love is the essential ingredient and utensil and cooking method in the soul kitchen.

Spring Lookout News:
Seeing pink trees inspires nothing short of all out celebration. These are lavish, over-the-top creations.

Hard Core Treatments for Relief from Oppressive Cleaning Issues:
From pp. 165-167,  “Insecure at last: losing it in our security-obsessed world,” c. 2006 by Eve Ensler, Villard Books, New York.
“Each night that I stood onstage, I stood in the center of this storm.  I stood in the center of a country that had been sold a lie about security and had, since September 11, allowed our government to destroy our environment, our democracy, our education, our health care, our morality, our standing in the world, our freedom, and our idea of ourselves for this illusion.  I stood on a platform and felt how deeply distracted Americans were by their corporate-rigged self hatred, by their sense that they were not enough, that they did not know enough, that they had to surrender their will and imagination and instincts and morality to the rich and Ivy Leagued and powerful who convinced them through corporate takeover and fear and mind control that they need to consume product after product to make themselves thinner, prettier, lighter, tighter — that somehow this consumption would ultimately lead to their security.  I stood on the stage and I felt in my bones the loneliness and pointlessness of this pursuit.  I felt the isolation that this pursuit has engendered.  I felt the exploitation of the world’s peoples and resources through this ravenous pursuit.  I felt the unexpressed guilt in the people who knew they were being manipulated and still they could not stop consuming.  I felt the depth of insecurity it has created, and the sorrow…
…I wanted to throw myself on the stage as in a Greek drama and wail and wail and pull my hair and scream: This is not accidental what you feel. This is not personal.  There is a plan to make you feel ugly and powerless, insignificant and insecure.  There is a plan to make you feel like someone or something is coming to fix and rescue you.  Give up illusions of security!  There is no one coming to take death or aging or sickness away.  There is no solution.  There is no reason to fix it.  No one smarter or better or on top.  You are already enough.  Enough.  Each and every one of you.  Enough.  Enough.”

Go and Study:
“Exodus as Liberation,” by Norman Fischer, Originally published in Turning Wheel, journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
The Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism

http://www.awakenedheartproject.org/articles/exodus-as-liberation

“…you shall be in constant ascent.” (Devarim 28.13)
B’shalom,
Amy Brookman
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