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a mourning mourning morning

Posted on 23 November 2011 by mira

At a certain point, I suppose, I just got sick of the whole damned enterprise. And that was the time to step back and write a paper about our process. Which we did. And presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Montréal. We just got back. The presentation went really well….

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daily kaddish: for deer-hunting season

Posted on 22 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

My dad plays horn on this Kaddish, nearly a year after doing his first stint as the guest hornist for a daily Kaddish, again while visiting for Thanksgiving.

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daily kaddish: for Kimba

Posted on 21 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

Today’s Kaddish is for David Mohr’s dog, Kimba.

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daily kaddish: for Phyllis Greenwood, on her Yahrtzeit

Posted on 20 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

Today is Phyllis Greenwood’s Yahrtzeit.

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daily kaddish: missing (again!)

Posted on 19 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

This is only the third time I completely forgot to record a daily kaddish during the year—the first time was during an exhausting business trip to Tokyo, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The second and third were here in Montréal.

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daily kaddish: for Xena

Posted on 18 November 201128 November 2011 by erin

Tonight’s Kaddish is for my friends Eric and Jody’s beloved cat Xena, a beautiful tortoiseshell who had to be put down after she began losing the battle with lung cancer.

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daily kaddish: missing

Posted on 17 November 201127 November 2011 by erin

Mira and I went to Montréal to give our paper about the “kaddish in two-part harmony project” at the annual American Anthropological Association conference and promptly forgot—forgot!!—to record a daily kaddish.

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daily kaddish: for the occupiers killed in the line of civic duty

Posted on 16 November 201127 November 2011 by erin

At least one protestor in Oakland, my home town, is now dead as a result of the misguided crackdown led by the mayor I voted for.

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daily kaddish: for Annie Styron Leonard

Posted on 15 November 201127 November 2011 by erin

Mira requested that today’s Kaddish be for her late mentor George Leonard’s wife, Annie Styron Leonard. She has written about him earlier and will write about his wife soon.

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daily kaddish: for Alice Gire

Posted on 14 November 201127 November 2011 by erin

She mostly kept to herself, or at least it seemed that way. I wonder what else I don’t remember, or never knew, about the woman next door.

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