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.
