Congrats, Clan Wex

[mizarchivist]

I went to witness the bar mitzvah for K. today! I put on my social anthropologist hat and head scarf and trucked north for the service. My last such said was my cousin's bat mitzvah in the early '90s. All I remember was the walking around with the Torah and my cousin reading, so this was essentially a new experience for me. I didn't understand 95% of what was said all morning. However, that's OK. The aspects I am carrying with me now- the magnitude, pride, happiness, and hard work. I very much like the concept of a more gradual slide into official adulthood, and having a concrete activity that requires serious study and preparation to help the adolescent Level Up (as was so aptly said today).
I'm blessed to live in a tribe that has so many threads of different traditions to add to our collective. This was probably the best, most life-affirming activity I could have had the honor of attending at this time: very healing after a solid week of chaos, fear and violence.

I was right in leaving Crime Fighter at home for the service. I got him gussied in his Flash onesie for the party, though, where he lived up to his reputation of "Fountain of Cute," to quote drwex. Lots of dancing, running around, and spinning.

Life Goes On. 

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Thank you

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

It was a delight to have you and Crime Fighter today to join in our simcha.

And his spinning to "you spin me right round baby right round" was so incredibly perfect I wish we'd had the presence of mind to capture it in video.

Uncanny, right?

[mizarchivist]

It would have been great to capture. It'll just have to be in our heads.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

And his spinning to "you spin me right round baby right round" was so incredibly perfect I wish we'd had the presence of mind to capture it in video.

D'awww, really?? D'AWWWWWW.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oops; I thought I'd replied to you along with mizarchivist but it somehow got appended as a new comment. Apologies!

What I'd said was Mazel Tov to all of you, but especially the New Man in the Clan. ;-)

Thank you dear

[drwex]

It was great to have you there and thank you for sharing your perspective. Having many of our non-Jewish friends there it was a challenge to figure out how much we wanted to change or explain versus just simply respecting the traditions.

Re: Thank you dear

[mizarchivist]

I'm all for unaltered and explain later the bits that are entirely incomprehensible.

[deb-dus.livejournal.com]

I finally sorted out my Livejournal account info and so can respond to posts!
Off to opening for Landscape show at a Geauga Park with the Murray Hill Gang.
Long live spring. Spring is short. So get out in it!!

[mizarchivist]

Yay for sorting and yay for art shows and super-yay for spring!