A very happy Easter Sunday to those who celebrate. Even if I no longer observe, I can appreciate the importance of a story about overcoming what seems like a final defeat. I also appreciate Victorian greeting cards:
I also also appreciate this BBC story from 2016: “Misspelled Acomb sign proclaims ‘Chris is Risen.'” It’s funny aside from the typo:
“The pastor at the Baptist Church is actually called Chris and he’s got to get up for a sunrise service at 6.30am on Easter Sunday.
“His predecessor didn’t manage to get up for the service last year.”
Finally, we have this, from Popehat:
Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
— Aiding And Abetting Terrorists Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The Child is beyond the age of hunting Easter eggs, but she will probably never be too old to enjoy eating a heap of chocolate for breakfast (I got her a KitKat egg and a Malteasers egg – she likes crispy bits in her chocolate, but nothing gooey). She will head up to her English grandfather’s place for lunch, and then spend the second week of her Easter break with her dad. Meanwhile, I will crack on (heh) with laundry, breaking down those pallets, and other forms of productive puttering. Baked chicken thighs and asparagus with lemon orzo for dinner. What’s on your agenda today?
NotMax
As it’s barely just past midnight here at the moment (and wide awake), one fervently hopes rising late.
oldster
Alêthôs anestê. Chris, that is.
Happy Half-Price Chocolate Eve to all who do not celebrate.
(This was a friend’s nickname for Valentine’s Day, but it seems as though it ought to apply here as well).
bjacques
Happy Easter!
Patching some shingles on the roof. In Amsterdam, it’s in the high 50s but sunny.
Tony Jay
My child might be 12, but he’s hunting the hell out of the bunny’s droppings and should, over the course of the day, consume enough sugar to fuel a week of DOGEbrat fuckery in the halls of fallen power.
Today we drop him at DnD, and since we did our food parcel drop-offs to Liverpool’s unhoused on Friday instead of the usual Sunday, we’ve got the early afternoon free to go have a beer and a game of darts.
All hail the Time of the Bunny!
David_C
Happy Easter! Since I’m in my church’s choir, singing will take up much of the morning. Two services, and for each one a (loud) anthem and 6-7 hymns. The postlude is an organ and brass rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus, and I will at least hum along.
My chef SIL will cook dinner and I’ll see the kids and grandkids. Tomorrow is work and more battles.
Rose Judson
@Tony Jay: Good to see you here! Enjoy the afternoon – hope you are getting some sunshine up there; it’s bright and breezy down here in Brum.
NotMax
The Best and Worst Peeps of 2025.
Baud
🐇🥚✝️ to all who celebrate.
Tony Jay
@Rose Judson:
Bright and breezy here too. Three days off work = Garden Chores, but today is for relaxing. Maybe this evening I’ll spend an hour devising sarcastic memes to vent my disgust with J. K. Umbridge and her sorority of spite, as is my wont. Or I’ll get back to work on the Letter from Brexitania I’ve been crafting. Thing is, it’s hard to encapsulate the multi-level awfulness of newnewlabourinc when they just keep on adding new floors and pumping them full of dismal gruel.
One must try, though. Such is Service.
Rose Judson
@Tony Jay:
This is also my problem – the omnishambles of it all. I may have to do a series of short stuff on “why IS Keir Starmer?”
lowtechcyclist
Happy Easter. The Lord is risen!
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
I also woke up too early this morning.
Tony Jay
@Rose Judson:
Oh, that’s easy. Because Wes Streeting is so repulsively toxic that McSweeny needed someone as hollow as a drum to sneak his True Blue Coup past the Labour membership.
He’ll be dumped in good time for the next election, so Wes can lead ‘his’ Party into coalition with the rump Conservatives and save us all from Froggy’s Reform mob by adopting all of their policies.
Am I joking? Time will tell.
Ramalama
I gave up chocolate for Lent. I may or may not start up again. I’m seriously a junkie. All Day Everyday I Dreamt About Chocolate.
the only kicker was I allowed myself fruit. But I don’t like fruit except for bananas, oranges when someone else has peeled them for me, and dates. One of our shops carried the world’s best dates, dehydrated, so that it was exactly like eating jelly beans. Those were from Iran. But then they stopped carrying those, and sold a few plump varieties, one of which I liked, but then they stopped carrying them, likely tariff related. And the other options sit in my fridge not worth it. Just lousy in comparison.
the beauty of this scheme meant I couldn’t overdo the dates. Like physically…if I ate more than 4 or on occasion 6, there would be Consequences.
Even thinking through my non-chocolate life makes me sound bad.
oldster
@Ramalama:
Yes, if I had to pick one chocolate substitute, it would probably be dates. A date with an almond inside is sometimes even better.
Baud
Come on in. The water’s fine.
MagdaInBlack
Last Sunday afternoon I heard many little voices outside and looked to see we were having an egg hunt in the central greenspace here. Plactic colored eggs everywhere and many small folks gathering them. The wee-est ones were not so sure what was up but figured it out while the older ones had a method. ALL eggs were collected and then we had to all sit down and open them, because these parents had put treats in each egg.
I very much enjoyed the festivities, from my 3rd floor perch, especially the inflatable unicorn egg gathering basket one small person was styling around with.
Happy Easter
NotMax
FYI, April 20 is also National Cheddar Fries Day, National Lima Bean Respect Day and Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day.
:)
Baud
@NotMax:
On the third day, Jesus was hungry.
Spanky
Jesus has risen, rolled back the stone covering his tomb, and seen his shadow, thus signifying that we’re in for another 9 weeks of spring.
Happy Easter, y’all.
NotMax
@Baud
“No anchovies? I spell my name
DANGERMANGER.”//
zhena gogolia
@lowtechcyclist: He is risen indeed!
Betty Cracker
Happy Easter to all who celebrate!
We’ll be having waffles for breakfast and later joining Bill’s mom, aunties, siblings nieces, nephews and assorted spouses for Easter dinner. There will be borscht, deviled eggs, baked ham, asparagus, carrots, scalloped potatoes and rolls. Also cheesecake and coconut-pineapple cake for dessert.
There will also be Easter chocolates in dishes distributed around the house, and I plan to have some. Hopefully I can locate the foil-wrapped chocolate eggs that contain malted milk centers. Yum!
Professor Bigfoot
@Baud: “Awwwwwww!”
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
It’s still Passover. No rising.
:)
sab
@Tony Jay: “JK Umbridge” is brilliant. Thank you for that.
Baud
I didn’t watch, but this seems like something folks here would enjoy.
eclare
I am meeting some relatives for lunch at a nice place. It should be a good time, politics avoided. I hope the restaurant has what I ordered last year, a modified eggs Benedict with salmon.
eclare
@Baud:
Wow. I wonder who filmed that.
mrmoshpotato
@oldster:
And also to (too) those who celebrate. I see you (tomorrow) Cadbury caramel eggs.
Baud
@eclare:
Yeah. Don’t know if it was a bystander or the swimmer set up the drone to follow them.
ETA
Apparently happened in 2019.
https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/real-life/coromandel-woman-swims-with-orcas-hahei-judie-johnson-40940/
mrmoshpotato
Ham, potatoes, and probably another veggie for Easter dinner.
Ham for days! (Seven pounds for the three of us.) Soups are on the horizon.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Did someone say Cadbury?
:)
Raven
Sitting at the dog park with Artie. I don’t think any of her dog friends will show up but it’s nice. My bride had her art opening Thursday and it was a great crowd!
eclare
@Baud:
Thanks!
NotMax
@Raven
Wow. Early bird art thou!
Raven
@NotMax: Nah, it’s almost 8.
eclare
@Raven:
Haven’t seen you in a while, great news about your bride’s show!
What kind of art was it, paintings? Photography?
Raven
Here’s a sample of her “Thread paintings ”
https://flic.kr/p/2qYM5PX
Raven
@eclare: Yea, I read most everything but don’t post much. It’s almost like these physical problems are positive and keep me from going off!
eclare
@Raven:
Those are so pretty.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Haha, you find the weirdest things.
I’m partial to the Cadbury bunny auditions.
Raven
@eclare: Thanks, she’s a worker bee!
zhena gogolia
@Raven: They’re beautiful!
Professor Bigfoot
@Raven: WOW!
That’s all I got, just a gobsmacked, jaw on the floor “wow!”
Beautiful.
Baud
@Raven:
Nice.
prostratedragon
It’s not easy, resurrecting:
“Resurrección del Angel”
prostratedragon
@Raven: Fascinating! One could gaze for hours.
Raven
@prostratedragon: And the show is in The TinyAth Gallery!
https://www.tinyathgallery.com/
prostratedragon
@Baud: Accidental thrills are the best.
MagdaInBlack
@Raven: Just beautiful. I am always in awe of her work you show us.
Sandia Blanca
@David_C: Another choir singer here! Singing at both services, with breakfast potluck between (we have to feed the brass players!) and a big potluck and Easter festival following the 11 o’clock service. Naps will be in order this afternoon.
Raven
Thanks ya’ll!
Geminid
@oldster: The heck with chocolate substitutes, I want one of those Fix chocolate bars from Dubai! They’re made of milk chocolate with a filling of pistachio, tahini, and kataifa, which is a fried dough in strand-like form. Fix Dessert Chocolatiers can’t produce enough of them at $20 each to satisfy demand, and copycats are so successful there is now a worldwide shortage of pistachio nuts.
Fix founder Sarah Mahmoudi decided to name her company for “Freaking Incredible ‘Xperience.” Mahmoudi developed her sensational product while pregnant with her second child. She experienced cravings for the traditional Middle Eastern dessert knafeh, which is kataifa mixed with honey and nuts, and decided to add chocolate to the mix.
Ms. Mahmoudi is a British Egyptian who now lives in the United Arab Emirates. In an interview by Emirati media site Fact Magazine, Mahmoudi said she believes this is a good era for Arab businesswomen. Her advice to new women entrepreneurs:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Raven: Holy cow. How did she do that?
Ramalama
@Baud: Lovely. I also started obsessing over how good those strokes were by the swimmer. Goal.
lowtechcyclist
@Ramalama:
I still like the church sign board that said “This Lent, keep the chocolate, give up the hatred, bigotry, and misogyny.”
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Nothin’ like taking a break with a Fart bar.
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
“What?”
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Happy Easter 🐰 🐣 🌷
VeniceRiley
Spouse has 4 days off Easter, which is lovely wrapped in Friday and Monday bank holidays here in England. Usually she works them; so this is nice. Nice weather too. Going to the Sudbury water meadows to walk the doggo/pony and have a pint at The Mill hotel.
There will be mud!
Shut it about gardening, Tony. So much poo to find hidden in too tall grass! Yes, he’s nearly famous and a wonderful dog; but, every time I step out there, I want to trade him for a teacup Yorkie.
I love holidays here. The Christian ones even. So much less culty and so much more cultural than religious.
Spanky
@NotMax: When I’m at the store and see the KIND bars In reminded that “kind” is German for “child”, but they’re not listed in the ingredients.
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
And washing it down with a Pee Cola, from your link.
And then there’s Poland’s response to tourism.
rikyrah
Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) posted at 6:33 AM on Sun, Apr 20, 2025:
Putin’s “Easter ceasefire” was nothing but a charade—a show for MAGA audiences who took the bait. Fox News aired an Easter Mass from Russia (accidentally portraying Kyiv as part of it), and MAGA influencers quickly began blaming Zelenskyy for everything.
It was all done by design: to shift attention away from Russia’s Palm Sunday bombing of Sumy and other atrocities, and to portray Russia—just as the MAGA crowd claims to be—as a Christian nation with traditional values.
What they conveniently forgot to mention is that the country is ruled by a former KGB spy—and so is its Orthodox Church.
https://t.co/k10pEQkDaa
(https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1913918976276471952?t=FxGPzmZdoE_zrNGpFr4j7g&s=03)
WendyBinFL
@Baud: Oh my, that video!
BettyC, thanks for another bravura post! Forwarding it to family and friends.
Mr. B and I will have brunch with our daughter today. (Mr. B’s first name is Chris, so this post should give him a good chuckle!)
Liminal Owl
@Raven: Beautiful!
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
And then there’s Ohio.
:)
NotMax
@Spanky
Sort of the way I react whenever I see Beat Bobby Flay among streaming choices.
False advertising, AFAIC.
;)
laura
I’m Nigella Lawsoning a ham, and the deviled egg slurry is bagged and ready to pipe back into the whites, internationally famous rice salad, asparagus and fresh sliced strawberries await a lemon pound cake and berry balsamic sauce that friends are bringing, along with a potato salad. Were hosting lunch and then playing a rock & roll hall of fame trivia game that’s about 10 or so years out of date. If it was current, none of us would no nothing. With luck, everyone will go home with a greasy parcel.
Papa Francesco sending a factotum to school the couchfucker on the basics warms the cockles of this salty acts despite much faith gal who still believes that I was a stranger and you welcomed me is a better rule to live by than what’s currently on offer.
WendyBinFL
Ack! Sorry I misattributed your post to BettyC, Rose! Well done!
Rose Judson
@Geminid: I was able to snag one of these at the supermarket yesterday. It is very nice indeed.
Jackie
@Raven: So beautiful! And the detail is amazing!
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
Jerry
I can’t believe it’s been only 2 1/2 years since Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde implored Trump and those in his circle to show mercy for the poor, LGBTQ, immigrants, and oppressed communites of our country. /sigh
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
“Where the vegetables are green
and you can pee into the stream
yes, we’re back from the shadows again.”
Glory b
@NotMax:
@Raven: Are they crocheted?
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
I’d Really Like to Eat a Child by Sylviane Donnio | Goodreads
Trivia Man
@oldster: my favorite holiday of the year is Discount Easter Candy week! But for the first year ever, i am not participating. Last year, after i procured my stash, i was diagnosed diabetic.
Sprinkle some jelly beans on the curb for me, and delight in discount marshmallow chocolate eggs for me.
geg6
Heading to my sister’s for family time. The weather is nice enough that I can get the niece’s three little ones all hopped up on chocolate and sugar and they can go outside and run it off with the dogs. A smaller than usual gathering due to my older sister being hospitalized and her husband will be hanging with her. Younger niece will not be there as she will be working the ER at Children’s Hospital. Older niece, her husband and kids, my youngest sister and her husband, me (John does not want to go) and a family friend will be the only ones at hosting sister’s. I’m bringing my famous honey glazed carrots and roasted asparagus. The asparagus at the local Giant Eagle was just beautiful. They often have vegetable and fruit bins specified as locally grown and these were from a farm in Fayette County, which is a bit over an hour south from here. Can’t wait to eat those spears!
laura
@laurah: I seem to have lost the ability to spell my own name.
(fixed in the original comment. ~ WG)
Another Scott
@rikyrah:
Relatedly, … Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy at TheAtlantic (from February 2015):
Maybe 47 is like VVP and not like the rest of us, and maybe that’s a big part of the problem??
Grr…
Thanks.
Have a good Sunday rikyrah and everyone.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Anyway
@Geminid: The Greek festival here has really good desserts including kadayifi -it’s the same thing. So yummy. The local Middle Eastern grocery sometimes has it too.
RevRick
Christ is Risen…and hopefully Chris is too.
That affirmation is the bedrock of all flavors of Christianity, but it is shrouded in mystery. It is inexplicable, yet whatever exactly happened, the fruits of it were unmistakable.
The apostle Paul, writing about 20 years after the event to the incredibly fractured church in Corinth, confesses that he only handed down to them the affirmation that Christ rose from the dead. But he goes on to say that if it’s just a one-off experience, it’s kind of irrelevant. Jesus’ resurrection is a foretaste of our own. But what does that mean?
I know that a lot of Christians might respond that they believe so that they can get into Heaven, but that really misses the point. The power of the resurrection is only meaningful in the here-and-now. It’s revealed in transformed human lives creating a transformed world. The Bible opens in a garden and ends up in a city, the new Jerusalem (city of peace). It moves from the flowering of the natural world to the flowering of humanity.
And what would that take?
The Early Church figured that out pretty quickly, and it’s encapsulated in a hymn to which Paul alludes in his letter to the Galatians (circa 50 C.E.) in chapter 3:
“In Christ there is no Jew or Greek, no slave or free, no male and female.”
This transformation requires the removal of all barriers to human flourishing, including all distinctions falsely based in race, class and gender. The resurrection happens whenever the Church exerts its influence to promote and create new visions of how the world works in ways that allow people to flourish.
I don’t need to get into Heaven. Heaven is already here. I just need to share a taste of what might be. And, for me, that’s both inward looking and outward looking. Inwardly, I need to work on the garbage the world has taught me. Outwardly, being committed to a justice that is substantive and inclusive, but also bringing joy to others.
Aren’t you glad you asked?
geg6
@eclare:
There’s a local place here that makes that and it’s fantastic.
Anyway
@Betty Cracker: Happy Easter BC and all who celebrate! The family gathering sounds fab — hope everyone has a blast. Loved this year’s butter lamb —one of your best.
frosty
@Raven: Wow, really impressive – a kind of art I didn’t know existed!
Rusty
@lowtechcyclist: He has risen indeed!
RevRick
@Jerry: I know it seems like years, but it’s only been months.
Chief Oshkosh
@Raven: Very nice!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Double header baseball for all us godless, secular humanists!
Froze my ass off at Coors field yesterday. Today, warmer and sunnier and a make up game for the one Friday that got *snowed* out.
prostratedragon
@geg6: Hmmm. Belatedly decided to get in some provisions for skillet roasted chicken and veg. Not too late to add on asparagus …
Hildebrand
As a clergy couple, it’s been an absolute delight not to lead services throughout Lent and Easter.
We went to Easter Vigil last night at the York Minister – and slept in this morning.
My wife then enjoyed making a lemon poundcake and an egg/potato/cumberland sausage bake that was beyond delicious. Both paired very nicely with a lovely New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
MagdaInBlack
@RevRick: Had I had you doing the Sunday sermon, rather than the priest reading the latest letter from the bishop, I would have been riveted instead of bored.
Thank You ! And Happy Easter.
Eta: my childhood catholic church experience was not inspiring.
Soapdish
Clean and maintenance on bikes
Make some chili
Make some red beans with rice and andouille sausage
Put the bike rack on my spouse’s car for our trip to the Adirondacks later this week
Easy 7 mile run
Rehearse some songs for later this week
Laundry
Leg of lamb for dinner
Family zoom meeting cocktail hour (we’ve been doing this since the start of Covid and decided it was nice to keep doing)
Busy day!
Trivia Man
@RevRick: thank you for the only sermon i will get today, i will reflect upon it.
I was raised in a very mormon household, including the stories about ancestors who walked from Nauvoo IL to the Great Salt Lake. Easter was an odd time, it wasn’t exactly emphasized. But in their efforts to improve membership numbers that has changed.
Special palm Sunday emphasis, leaning in to more traditional easter trappings, even encouraging the wearing of cross jewelry.
And of course, the gas-lighting. What do you mean different? Its always been like this since day 1 and Joseph’s divine revelation of the restoration.
WaterGirl
@Rose Judson
Crispy bits in chocolate – absolutely!
The Child has most excellent taste.
Chief Oshkosh
@Another Scott: I think it was BC a long time ago who pointed out that the Russians have simply never put in the work to build a contemporary society from within. They’ve always been imperialistic.
Many months (years?) later, Krugman wrote about the research and thinking that have led many to understand why, even strictly economically, imperialism isn’t worth it.
Deputinize America
I went to my ancestral Antiochian Orthodox church for all three and a half hours of Pascha at midnight – despite the fact that my orientation anymore is full on aggressive atheism, my cousins still go there, the liturgy is meditative as opposed to smarmy, the lead priest is a really nice guy and the service is well over 90% “be thoughtful, charitable, humble, patient and just, like Jesus was” with only a little bit of woo. Plus, my kids were baptized there and I was happy to attend frequently until a brief, abortive attempt by an asshole fundie convert bishop to infect and control the hierarchy (it reverted to normal, but by then my examination of the whole of Christianity was pretty scathing, as seen through the eyes of seeing fundamentalists sanewashed everywhere in our society).
I say “ancestral” because my great grandmother’s name (died 1934 getting run over by a trolley trying to save one of my great uncles) is one of the first on the +Memory Eternal+ board along with my paternal great grandfather, some great aunts, my grandparents and multiple cousins.
I appreciate that liturgy – it is peaceful, and even though I’m past belief, I find chanted liturgy soothing and the mark of something unique and mature.
RevRick
@Trivia Man: Wherever you are on life’s journey, may you flourish.
Albatrossity
Slow-cooking a pork roast to make pulled pork for the family (E, me, daughter and grandchild). It will be accompanied by asparagus; dessert will be solid chocolate bunnies. No butter lamb, alas, but we’ll probably survive!
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay:
New rotating tag.
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all.
Moving slow, easing into the day. “Productive puttering” sounds too intense for me so I may just spend the majority of the day on the back porch swing listening to the birds.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Two words, for the 10th time. :-)
Artists Post.
oldster
@Trivia Man:
“Last year, after i procured my stash, i was diagnosed diabetic.”
I live in dread of the same diagnosis, Not that it has persuaded me to live right.
prostratedragon
@Another Scott:
Oh he definitely is, or aspires to be. Not least in a drive to diminish or destroy whatever seems to out-achieve them, which is what P. wants more than merely using us. Consider this year’s White House Easter egg roll:
Another Scott
Oh, and yet again, Popehat shows that he’s an absolute master of the form of the devastating tweet.
Relatedly, Alito yet again shows us all that he’s a petty, disingenuous, dangerous, reactionary troll.
Short thread:
Click on over for embedded images, etc.
Grr…
Best wishes,
Scott.
Glory b
@geg6: I also like that Giant Eagles give places of honor (lol) to locally grown produce.
Salty Sam
I’m glad you answered. That was beautiful.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, in his characteristic thoughtful way, today Dean Baker of CEPR talks about Section 230:
Is he right? Dunno. But we see the dangers of these huge platforms and this may be one way to start cutting them down to size.
Click over and read the whole thing.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Almost Retired
Happy Easter! Because our sons are 7 years apart, we hid all the eggs in twos with each boy instructed to take only one. We thought it might also encourage cooperation (“Look, I found two here – come get yours”).
The older one quickly figured out the system could be beat by quietly taking both eggs, and assuming the rest of us would be none the wiser. He is a lawyer now.
Nukular Biskits
@RevRick:
If only more pastors were like you …
v/r
Hildebrand
@RevRick: Yep, every day is ‘end days’ (meaning, we’ve only got one crack at this, and no guarantees of a tomorrow) so live in way that builds up, never tears down. Live in a way that creates, never destroys. Live in a way that welcomes, never rejects. Live in love, not hate.
Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly – that’s still a good code to live by.
Seems it’s the fundamental call that nice young fellow from Nazareth offered to make the world a better place, something closer to what Pops created us to do in the first place.
mappy!
The yard. Daffs, Tulips, Scilla, Swamp Marigold, Turkestanica Species Tulips, Myrtle… Ephemerals: Spring Beauty, Trout Lily, Trillium…
YY_Sima Qian
Reposting my comment from previous dead thread:
YY_Sima Qian
How the “beautiful deals” w/ the 70+ countries are going:
It turns out naked, coercive, exploitative, extractive, rent seeking, negative sum imperialism is not attractive. Who knew?
Another Scott
More Parloff this Sunday.
O . M . G
These monsters need to face real consequences for arguing this dangerous nonsense.
And their enablers and supporters need to be confronted to make them think about the consequences if things like this stand.
Grr…
Best wishes,
Scott.
Soprano2
The agenda for today is shower, breakfast, then switching the clothes in my closet from winter to summer. I wish I had a closet big enough for all of them, but I don’t. It’s a job because I clean all my shoes before I put them away, that way they’re ready to wear when fall comes. It’s a good day for it since it’ll be raining on and off all day. They’re forecasting a chance of tornadoes later today. It’s already rained over 3″ since Friday. My sump pump is kicking on about every two minutes right now.
Trivia Man
@RevRick: side question, ignore if too personal or divisive for you. Are mormons christian? Opinions differ and as an atheist i am missing much nuance.
lowtechcyclist
@RevRick:
Hell, it feels like we’re already in his third term.
Gloria DryGarden
@NotMax: my dad would rise from the dead for those Lima beans. I’ll keep an eye out.
They Call Me Noni
@Almost Retired: He is a lawyer now.
Of course he is!
lowtechcyclist
@Trivia Man:
I’m not RevRick, but I’ll offer my quick take: it’s not my business to decide which of all the millions of people who identify as Christian are really Christian. I’ll let God sort that part out.
Jesus said, “you shall know them by their fruits.” Paul in his letter to the Galatians said the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. And in Matthew 25, Jesus has some words about how the sheep and goats will be separated: did we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, visit the sick, etc.
The older I get, the less I worry about issues of doctrine.
lowtechcyclist
@YY_Sima Qian:
I don’t write many checks anymore, but a good deal of those I write are to local businesses who want to avoid that 3% bite that the credit card companies take out.
But when even countries like Indonesia have a better way of doing this, it’s pretty disgusting that being in the U.S. gives us the sucky choice of paying an extra 3% for credit card convenience, or retreating to the obsolescence of checks.
YY_Sima Qian
@lowtechcyclist: Policymaking captured by powerful vested interests, wedded to obsolescent/obsolete incumbent technologies
The PRC ran w/ the QR based cashless payment system because credit cards never had the chance to capture the bulk of transactions. Then Alibaba & Tencent proliferated it across the Global South, which had similar situations as the PRC.
jimmiraybob
Yesterday, at a march in downtown St. Louis, I saw an old woman in a wheel chair that had shown up. It was cold and rainy and she showed up. Her hands on the wheels must have been freezing. She showed up. There was a nearby lightning strike and booming thunder. She showed up. When the future asks, what did you do? She’ll say, I showed up.
Just sayin’.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott:
I am not seeing PopeHat anywhere in your comment. I am confused.
Shana
Just got back from a korean spa visit with my daughter – delayed birthday present – which was lovely, and empty except for us at 9am. Will probably spend the afternoon shifting around Passover dishes for regular dishes and moving non-Passover- approved foods from basement fridge to kitchen fridge. Then for our first post-Passover dinner we’re going to either Famous Dave’s for BBQ or Carnegie Deli for reubens.
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon:
I have never heard of skillet roasted chicken – do you have a recipe?
trollhattan
Stopping by to note the chicken-riding bunny army has to be one of the weirdest Easter takes, ever.
Onward!
Cluck!
Chicken used to be not the cheapest available meaty option. Mom had stories from her yoot of my grandmother making mock chicken for the family, from veal.
trollhattan
@Shana: Korean spa? Do you bob in a warm tub of Koreans?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Sorry. I was referring to the Popehat bloot that was posted with the OP.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Juju
@NotMax: I am no fan of Peeps. I don’t care for marshmallows, so peeps are a definite no for me. The only peep thing I ever paid attention to was the annual peep diorama that the Washington Post did, or does, but I lost track of that bit of fun, especially after Bezos took over. The peep ratings were funny and it made me smile because the couple doing the rating of the new peep flavors really belong together. I’m glad they found each other. They are probably one of the cutest couples I have ever seen. I will say that the thought of a Dr.Pepper flavored peep actually made my skin crawl.
David_C
@Sandia Blanca: Ooh, the potluck sounds like fun! We had an Easter egg hunt in the building – kids everywhere – and I had snacks with tea I brought from home. Voice is a bit shot. Happy Easter!
@RevRick: Amen! The things I hear from some of the loudest voices out there don’t match with our theology, what I taught in Sunday School, and what we proclaim in music.
Ramalama
@lowtechcyclist: Yes absolutely. Mine was more of a “Do it now as an option so that later down the road you’re not required to,” mode.
My parents were both super Catholic, and super liberal. My mom wrote letters to the editor that got published in religious periodicals but also the Chicago Tribune. She was, as she said, “barely hanging in there by the tips of her fingers.” She went to Bible studies (eye roll) and discussions and often had people ask her to help them defend her/their shared views against firebrand nutters, also in the group.
Torrey
@Raven: I’m late to the party, as always, but those thread paintings are amazing! I hope at some point we get the chance to see more of her work.
dnfree
We have a Greek in-law named Christ, so our relative is generally glad to tell us when Christ has risen on Easter. This year it’s the same day as “regular” Easter, but many years it’s a week later. That means they had to pay full price for Easter candy this year. But I’m sure the eggs were dyed red, as is traditional.
Juju
@Ramalama: When I was a child and compelled to give up something for lent, it was never chocolate, because I knew I couldn’t do it. I usually tried to give up something like folding laundry, but my mother would never have any of that smarty pants stuff, especially from me. I love chocolate, but I try not to eat as much as I really want to eat, but I can go about seven to ten days without chocolate. I do reach a point where I swear I will peel my own skin off if I don’t have chocolate. You have my admiration. I have not cared for dates since my grandmother would bring some weird date nut bread that came in a can. Cream cheese was supposed to make that better, but that bread with cream cheese put me off of cream cheese until I was almost 30. My hat is off to you for your choice of dates as a a chocolate substitute. I could never do that.
Gloria DryGarden
@Deputinize America: your chanted liturgy at Antioch orthodox church sounds beautiful and soothing
RevRick
@Trivia Man: If you go by creedal, orthodox Christianity, then the answer is no, because they add a separate revelation to the story. Jehovah’s Witnesses are in a similar weird relationship to Christianity. And then there’s Islam, which acknowledged Jesus but denies his divinity.
My own inclination is to let people/religious bodies to define themselves. It’s no skin off my teeth.
Miss Bianca
@lowtechcyclist: He is risen indeed, Hallelujah!
Or so the faith of my childhood prompts me to respond. I tend to prefer expressing it the way the marquee outside the Paonia Baptist Church proclaimed it, lo, these many years ago:
“HE’S UP!”
Miss Bianca
@Raven: Wow!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@RevRick: Thank you, Rev!
I’m not a member of a religion, but I too seek this unnameable unity. May we all find each other as one.
trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
We’d say “He is riz” to one another. Lutheran scamps we were.
Jacel
@lowtechcyclist: Glorious Firesign Theatre song!
Trivia Man
@lowtechcyclist: thank you
Trivia Man
@RevRick: I also consider it not my definition to make. When i am around family it sometimes comes up in a defensive way – “Jesus Christ is in our name! We are certainly christian!” I am curious why others say no. The “extra” revelation is certainly an oddity.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott:
Oh, sorry, that would have been obvious if I hadn’t been jumping between 5 different threads this morning!
WaterGirl
@Juju: Dates. :: shudder ::
opiejeanne
Thread is possibly dead now but, oh well.
I got up early to rehearse with the choir and with the director for a piano duet we were playing during Communion, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Bach’s little perpetual motion composition. Sang, played pretty well the first time through but the church was packed so we played it a second time, and it was great, nearly perfect, and a lot of fun. I swear, yesterday when I practiced it I was inventing new mistakes so I stopped working on it and did something else. Didn’t even look at the music again until this morning. Thank goodness we did it twice, because I didn’t want to leave it with that performance in everyone’s memory.
One* of our kids is coming over with her spouse for a 3pm dinner, ham of course, potato salad, deviled eggs, various accompaniments including a green salad, and little lemon cakes in the shape of Peeps. Some of them lost their heads in the mold, so I glued them back on with a little of the lemon drizzle. I’m learning not to grind my gears, so to speak. I’m 75 now and have discovered that I don’t have the pep I used to have, so I’m learning to scale back a bit: the potato salad came from the deli, the ham is a very small one so we don’t experience the definition of eternity: 2 people and a ham.
We discovered that the easter baskets have been visited by mice while they were stored in the garage, so we had to discard the “grass” and clean them up, and the candy is either in wrappers or in plastic eggs.
What is with all of these people I read about this week who give their kids a new bike EVERY Easter???? It was more than one family that claimed it was tradition.
*The other kids and spouses are out of state currently.
opiejeanne
@RevRick: He is risen, Indeed!
The Lodger
@lowtechcyclist: you can pee into the stream AND THAT’S IMPORTANT!
BellyCat
@Raven: Love your bride’s Thread paintings!!!