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Girl Whirl in the shadows...

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012

From generation to generation...NEVER AGAIN!!

Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It is a solemn day, beginning at sunset on the 27th of the month of Nisan and ending the following evening, according to the traditional Jewish custom of marking a day. Places of entertainment are closed and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country. The central ceremonies, in the evening and the following morning, are held at Yad Vashem and are broadcast on the television. Marking the start of the day-in the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister, dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, gather together with the general public to take part in the memorial ceremony at YadVashem in which six torches, representing the six million murdered Jews, are lit. The following morning, the ceremony at Yad Vashem begins with the sounding of a siren for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the sounding, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust. Afterward, the focus of the ceremony at Yad Vashem is the laying of wreaths at the foot of the six torches, by dignitaries and the representatives of survivor groups and institutions. Other sites of remembrance in Israel, such as the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz and Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, also host memorial ceremonies, as do schools, military bases, municipalities and places of work. Throughout the day, both the television and radio broadcast programs about the Holocaust. In recent years, other countries and Jewish communities have adopted Yom Hashoah, the 27th of Nisan, to mark their own day of memorial for the victims of the Holocaust.

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Doubting Thomas..

'Doubting Thomas'
oil on canvas, 1602-1603
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1573-1610

''But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, 'We have seen the Lord.' But he said unto them, 'Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.' And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, 'Peace be unto you.' Then saith he to Thomas, 'Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.' And Thomas answered and said unto him, 'My Lord and my God.' Jesus saith unto him, 'Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.''

John 20:24-29

Happy Easter...to All who believe!!!

Passover....

Applying the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and lintel..

'Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.'

Exodus 12:21-24

...and so from generation to generation, we celebrate the epic deliverance from the bondage of slavery to the true freedom our ancestors gained!
Happy Passover!!!

Fishin' Jimmy

My book...Copyright 1889

'Fishin' Jimmy'

Annie Trumbull Slosson
1836-1926

We just found out that I was pregnant. It was late January. We were living in The Village and decided to go to the historic Rhinebeck, NY, to a B&B for the weekend. It was unusually warm that weekend, even though there were large chunks of ice floating down the Hudson. It was perfect weather for wandering around town and visiting the many quaint shops. We came upon bookstore full of not just old books, but antiques as well. Rummaging through this store, we found a small, very old, thin book, called, 'Fishin' Jimmy', by Annie Trumbull Slosson, written in 1889. It cost us no more than $2, from what I remember. We bought it only for the name of the book...seriously. When we moved to Colorado a couple of months ago, I found that unpacking had it's share of surprises. One of them was stumbling upon this 'little' book again. It is a short story, only 53 pages. I sat outside the other day and read it again, and I was reminded of what a treasure we found so many years earlier in Rhinebeck.

Here is a small portion of the book, from pages 8-9 (from my book). The narrator speaking of her sons: 'They are older now, and are no mean anglers, I believe; but they look back gratefully to those brook-side lessons, and acknowledge their obligations to Fishin' Jimmy. But it is not of these practical teachings I would now speak; rather of the lessons of simple faith, of unwearied patience, of self-denial and cheerful endurance which the old man himself seemed to have learned, strangely enough from the very sport so often called cruel and murderous. Incomprehensible as it may seem, to his simple intellect the fisherman's art was a whole system of morality, a guide for everyday life, an education, a gospel. It was all any poor mortal man, woman, or child needed in this world to make him or her happy, useful, good.'

I Googled the author, Annie Trumbull Slosson. She, it turns out, was considered a significant author in the 'regionalism' movement of the late 19th century. Slosson devoted much of her time to entomology later in life, especially after 1886. In 1892, she was one of the founding members of the New York Entomological Society (and its first female member), and it met for some time in her home in Gramercy Park in New York City. She died there in 1926.

If you click here or on the title of this post, you can read this wonderful book. The story of a simple fisherman and the lessons he learned and lived, all very clear to anyone blessed enough to cross his path!!

Noted angling story teller, Henry Van Dyke said this about Fishin' Jimmy:

The loveliest of all her simple narratives is that which I have chosen to stand near the end of this book,--a kind of benediction on anglers.