Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

April 19, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is tonight, April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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A Passover poem about the Seder, or Passover meal:

Perhaps a meal ought not bear so much weight.

A dining room is not a synagogue.

Sometimes, however, food's a pedagogue.

Sometimes one's best text is what one ate.

One finds in food the sense in many senses,

Vested in a symbol that will last.

Even as a people needs its past,

Ritual foods dismantle time's defenses.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/15: Every Garden Needs Diversity

4/16: Each Moment Is a Miracle

4/17: Everyone at Times Is Resurrected

4/18: Here We Have a Story for the World

4/19: Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight