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This will be another brief one because I gotta scoot!! But, wow! What a gorgeous day here, gang!

Yesterday was so gloomy and snowy and windy and cold, and as I was driving to and from town, I just felt like I couldn’t deal with it a moment longer… I needed SUN!

And this morning, the entire weather report for the next 6 days had changed!!

It is so sunny here right now that it feels like Spring.

And tomorrow night is the final night of lighting the votives at “bedtime” because Sunday , we move the clocks ahead and it will still be daylight for me at “bedtime.”

I put that in quotes, because when I go to bed, I do a bunch of things: I watch a little TV on my phone, I study at least one lesson of the many courses I’m studying right now, and I listen to a chapter in whatever audio book I’m listening to (currently: Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald.) And then I go to sleep.

One of the online courses I’m studying right now is really fascinating. (All the courses I’m always taking are Judeo-Christian in some way.) This particular course is “Judaism” and taught by Isaiah M. Gafni, Ph.D. A professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

This is my second course taught by him and I always learn some very interesting stuff. (If you’re new to the blog: when I was a few weeks old, I was adopted by a very religious Polish-Latvian Jewish family in Cleveland. So for most of the first 18 years of my life, I was surrounded by very religious Jews. I started learning Hebrew at age 5, and went to Hebrew school 3 times a week, until I was 9 and begged my parents: “Can I please go to dancing school???” For some blessed reason, they said yes.)

Anyway. The current lesson discusses the transition from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (by the Romans, in 77 CE), and how Judaism went from being strictly in the Temple and run by priests who were born into the priesthood, to being run by rabbis who were schooled to become rabbis and who were very mobile and could travel to other communities.

This is something I have always wondered about and this particular lesson was fascinating.

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Okay, anyway. Before I forget!

Il donaldo trumpo posted the popcorn meme again!! So get ready for some sort of political bruhaha to get underway this weekend. (And remember that you’re watching a movie.)

“NEED MORE POPCORN FOR THE WEEKEND!!!🍿🇺🇸🥳🥳🥳”

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Cave Things has another sale underway!! 20% off all clothing until March 17th!! (visit the link)

Unfortunately, this t-shirt (my favorite one!!) is sold out:

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More Nick Cave stuff —

For some reason, Nick Cave Official on Instagram is telling us to watch this specific lyric video, the song for Anita Lane (which I’ve posted here before, but here it is again!). This is my favorite song on the Wild God album:

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And THANK YOU to everybody for downloading my eBooks yet again at Smashwords this past week. The sale ends tomorrow. (Visit HERE for links to my eBooks that are free to download. Scroll down the page.) (ADULTS ONLY!!)