Throw it out and you blaze a path

[sovay]

We have told the story and opened the door to the stranger. The Seder plate was not complete until my niece had had a hand in the making of the charoses, using the wooden bowl and chopper inherited from my great-grandmother. It must have been a common household object once. My mother has never mentioned it outside of Pesach; my entire lifetime, it has seen only this holiday use. Beyond the generation of its origin, I have never had any clear idea of how old it is: the century needed for sentience, perhaps. I certainly feel affectionate toward it. I hope for it to last long enough to be handed on to my niece. By then it should be able to tell its own stories.

rushthatspeaks came bearing a DVD of Anthony Mann's The Furies (1950), a gift from nineweaving courtesy of the half-price Criterion sale. I did not expect it to come boxed with the source novel in a matching edition. I feel more films should be packaged this way—novels, short stories, playscripts, critical apparatus. If I feel like it, thanks to the Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections, I can even move on to the PCA file.

Please enjoy this unexpected fake coconut palm around the corner from where I used to live.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Happy Passover :D

[asakiyume]

So much lives in objects like that bowl; so much gets communicated by holding it and passing it, in the moment, to young hands. --I feel this even though I know you can't, one can't, enumerate what that "so much" is. It's a weight of feeling (both the tactile meaning and the emotion meaning), a sense of time, all the wondering that you're doing, the imagination, and the sharing. Wonderful.

Happy Passover!

(And I am delighted by that Northeastern coconut mime!)

[drinkingcocoa]

I've said "the century needed for sentience" at least five times in my head. How enjoyable!

Yumm, charoset.

[thistleingrey]

By then it should be able to tell its own stories.

Very likely! :)