We like to see our futures bright
And for the third night of Hanukkah, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks and I attended the b'nei mitzvah of my godchild and the two friends with whom they had been studying all year. My godchild read their portion beautifully. They played the melodica and the guitar. selkie spoke with such deserved affection and pride: she and N have raised a really good kid. Representing her side of the family, I had the honor of hagbah, for which I was wearing my grandfather's tallis from his own bar mitzvah almost ninety years ago; it turns out that same sefer Torah came to the temple through the Czech Memorial Scrolls, which he photographed in Westminster Synagogue in 1969. It's a small world with a lot of ghosts in them and some of them are the future.
After havdalah, I had somewhat unexpected occasion to text Selkie, "I have successfully broken into your house," because the door code for its own mysterious reasons refused to work when Rush and I got back before the rest of the family and therefore I had to prevent a cat from slipping out of the gap between the top of a couch and the bottom of a window sash while slipping in myself, as instructed. My senior year of college, I spent a great deal of time climbing in and out of a second-story window because it was my customary route to the person I was seeing at the time and the roof was very accessible from the back deck. The utility of this skill set is ridiculous and delights me.spatch tells me the third night's candle was lit for truth. Tomorrow we drive back.
rushthatspeaks and I attended the b'nei mitzvah of my godchild and the two friends with whom they had been studying all year. My godchild read their portion beautifully. They played the melodica and the guitar. selkie spoke with such deserved affection and pride: she and N have raised a really good kid. Representing her side of the family, I had the honor of hagbah, for which I was wearing my grandfather's tallis from his own bar mitzvah almost ninety years ago; it turns out that same sefer Torah came to the temple through the Czech Memorial Scrolls, which he photographed in Westminster Synagogue in 1969. It's a small world with a lot of ghosts in them and some of them are the future.
After havdalah, I had somewhat unexpected occasion to text Selkie, "I have successfully broken into your house," because the door code for its own mysterious reasons refused to work when Rush and I got back before the rest of the family and therefore I had to prevent a cat from slipping out of the gap between the top of a couch and the bottom of a window sash while slipping in myself, as instructed. My senior year of college, I spent a great deal of time climbing in and out of a second-story window because it was my customary route to the person I was seeing at the time and the roof was very accessible from the back deck. The utility of this skill set is ridiculous and delights me.
spatch tells me the third night's candle was lit for truth. Tomorrow we drive back.
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1) The renters had forgotten to leave the key.
2) The renters had flown to Europe on holiday.
So their first holiday task was breaking in through the kitchen window, which they successfully accomplished.
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I love the thought of you window-climbing, ahahaha
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The tallis and the (cat burglar's) tail become you.
Love,
Nine
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(And I am impressed you were able to break into the house.)
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I am glad they had their slightly misdemeanor-inflected holiday!
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There really is, and this child very much brought their individual and definite self to the tradition. I was so glad to be there for it.
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It was more like window-eeling on the night, but it worked!
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*hugs*
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Apparently if my shoulders fit, the rest of me is compliant!
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I will tell them! They made out like multiple bandits with the b'nei mitzvah gifts and deserved it all.
The tallis and the (cat burglar's) tail become you.
Thank you. I had also the pearl chai bracelet from my grandparents; it is ritual wear.
*hugs*
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Me too! It was important.
(And I am impressed you were able to break into the house.)
The hardest part was undoing the latch from the other side of a gate taller than my head. Fortunately I have long arms and hyperflexibility. After that it was mostly slithering.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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*hugs*