Clearly this quagmire is far from over—but let the Iraq War rest in actual peace.
Month: October 2011
a kaddish for qaddafi. of sorts.
I feel like I’m supposed to write a kaddish for Qaddafi. And I’m having a lot of trouble doing so. What I want to do is defend him somehow. Say that he’s been maligned for decades. Tell you about the jokes Tunisians (Libya’s neighbors to the west) used to tell about Qaddafi, all the way…
daily kaddish: for qaddafi
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi died today. Arab Autumn?
daily kaddish: for Margaret Cashel Phelan
A kaddish for Margaret Cashel Phelan, granddaughter of one of the founders of my old home-town, Grafton, North Dakota.
daily kaddish: my marriage
Today V and I had our final meeting with the mediator and reached agreement on our settlement.
daily kaddish: memories shared with good friends
Tonight I had dinner with some dear friends, who know both me and my soon-to-be-ex-wife well.
daily kaddish: because it’s what we do
Today’s Kaddish is another whose only theme, really, is that this is what we do during our year.
daily kaddish: horn, text, and chant
I absent-mindedly starting chanting the text along with the melody while setting levels for Mira to record the spoken text.
daily kaddish: 44 more to go
Mira pointed out before we recorded the Kaddish tonight that we have forty-four more of these to go before completing our lunar year of them on 27 November 2011. We started on 7 November 2011.
daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie
Tonight’s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.