Seder Night & Narcissism
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eumeliaImage heavy post ahead!
I'm going to be away this weekend, due to going on vacation with a few friends.
My brother took pictures of the Seder that took place at my Aunt and Uncle (we were about 30 people) and it went much better than expected. Despite the songs my sister and I felt were completely unnecessary considering all the children in the house understand Hebrew and it just made things longer.
As mentioned in a previous post, our Passover is quite traditional, however this year my cousin decided to make it an interactive (hence the unnecessary songs, some of which were okay, I admit) and very nearly skipped over parts of the Haggadah that were specifically asked to be read (which annoyed me).
The real reason I'm making this post was to show you pictures!
First, the Seder plate.
As you can see, the extra additions of Orange and Olive were added, I was actually a bit moved to see the additions, but the story of the Orange wasn't told to completion and only the story of women taking active part in Jewish religious life, rather than inclusion of Queers in Jewish culture (seeing as we're huge). And the Olive was spoken about in general terms of peace among the people, rather than, you know, an end to the Occupation.
Hopefully, by the time I can MC a Seder, the Olive will be symbolic of peace, rather than freedom from oppression.
Here's a pic of almost
30 people, no joke!
And now, the moment some of you have been waiting for! Pictures of me!
That's what I looked like Seder evening. That's the dress I bought a few weeks ago if you peeps recall (DW post) and it was its first time out in public.
Hells yes!
This is me reading Emma Goldman.
My cousin asked us to provide thoughts and other things to add to the Seder and I decided I would read (a heavily edited, alas) an essay by Emma Goldman about Suffrage. You can read the original from 1917 here.
And one more of me looking pretty tipsy!
Hey, it is at least four glasses of wine!
That's all folks!
I'm going to be away this weekend, due to going on vacation with a few friends.
My brother took pictures of the Seder that took place at my Aunt and Uncle (we were about 30 people) and it went much better than expected. Despite the songs my sister and I felt were completely unnecessary considering all the children in the house understand Hebrew and it just made things longer.
As mentioned in a previous post, our Passover is quite traditional, however this year my cousin decided to make it an interactive (hence the unnecessary songs, some of which were okay, I admit) and very nearly skipped over parts of the Haggadah that were specifically asked to be read (which annoyed me).
The real reason I'm making this post was to show you pictures!
First, the Seder plate.
As you can see, the extra additions of Orange and Olive were added, I was actually a bit moved to see the additions, but the story of the Orange wasn't told to completion and only the story of women taking active part in Jewish religious life, rather than inclusion of Queers in Jewish culture (seeing as we're huge). And the Olive was spoken about in general terms of peace among the people, rather than, you know, an end to the Occupation.
Hopefully, by the time I can MC a Seder, the Olive will be symbolic of peace, rather than freedom from oppression.
Here's a pic of almost
30 people, no joke!
And now, the moment some of you have been waiting for! Pictures of me!
That's what I looked like Seder evening. That's the dress I bought a few weeks ago if you peeps recall (DW post) and it was its first time out in public.
Hells yes!
This is me reading Emma Goldman.
My cousin asked us to provide thoughts and other things to add to the Seder and I decided I would read (a heavily edited, alas) an essay by Emma Goldman about Suffrage. You can read the original from 1917 here.
And one more of me looking pretty tipsy!
Hey, it is at least four glasses of wine!
That's all folks!
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Date: 2011-04-23 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 04:13 pm (UTC)Making people smile makes me happy!
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Date: 2011-04-23 11:36 am (UTC)And you're adorable!
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Date: 2011-04-25 04:13 pm (UTC)Thank you!