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Tag: China

daily kaddish: with squeaky dog toy

Posted on 2 July 20116 July 2011 by erin

ou just never know whence the lessons of the daily mourning ritual will come. On this day of finally returning home to “kaddish in two-part harmony” as usual, Kjersti reminded us both that there are more important things than bereavement, prayers, and music.

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daily kaddish: shenzhen

Posted on 1 July 20116 July 2011 by erin

Midday I realized I hadn’t made a Kaddish the day before. I was horrified.

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daily kaddish: whoops! a non-kaddish

Posted on 30 June 20116 July 2011 by erin

The next afternoon, in the middle of my business meeting, I realized I’d completely forgotten to make a Kaddish on Thursday, 30 June 2011. It was the first day I’d failed to keep my promise.

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daily kaddish: still in Beijing

Posted on 29 June 20116 July 2011 by erin

The next morning, I figured I’d better record the Kaddish right away, before I forgot about it. After a few cups of tea and an hour or two of catching up on client email, I got right to it.

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daily kaddish: from beijing

Posted on 28 June 20116 July 2011 by erin

I think it was 3:30 in the morning when we realized that bedtime had come and gone, and I still needed to make a Kaddish. Oy.

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Podcasts once again in hiatus for travel

Posted on 25 June 2011 by erin

Once again I’m likely to have some trouble keeping the daily podcast posts timely while I’m traveling in Asia. I’ll continue making the daily recordings on the day, with days defined by local time, but transferring iTalk recordings from iPad or iPhone to my work Dell and then dealing with Audacity to process mp3s and…

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another kaddish for japan’s daughters and sons: on scale-slipping and tragedy

Posted on 28 March 201128 March 2011 by erin

A kaddish for all the sons and daughters Japan has lost and will continue losing in the aftermath of this devastation, whose enormous universal scale I cannot comprehend, whose personal scale is also enormous in its minute detail. On how we use scale-slipping to cope with tragedy. A reply to Mira’s kaddish one daughter at a time.

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