Busy day and movie night (friends near and far)

Delicious food, great
Friends. A drawing together,
Threads and roots in life.


Rough (first) draft:
Delicious food, great 

Friends. A drawing together, 

Alike souls and minds.

Tell me, what are you thankful for?

Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and lately I've been thinking about what I'm grateful for in light of recent events, in the personal and global spectrum. So, without further ado, here's a list of the ten things I'm most thankful for as the hours tick off to Thanksgiving:
# Youtube
# Free internet
# Family
# Raven, B., J., and Kathryn
# My entire family
# The Tao Te Ching
# Lloyd Alexander
# Orson Scott Card
# Innovation
# Free thinkers

Whoever reads this, I'd very much like it if you would post a list of the ten or more things you're thankful for, I'm looking forward to reading your lists :)

Thanksgiving

Bring on the Christmas music and feasting!! Oh yeahhhhhh.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, may it be filled with fun, family, friends, and food, really gooooooooddd fooooood :D

Seder meal

Hava nagila, hava nagila...... Uru achim! Uru achim!
This song has been playing through my head over and over, it is a very catchy Jewish dance song :) My scholar class had a sort of mock (Since none of us are Jewish) Seder meal. I really enjoyed participating in it all, never before have I had such a new and exciting culture-exploring opportunity. The whole Seder ceremony was very intriguing, although it was a little long in my opinion (I had to go to the restroom quite badly at the end of the whole thing, as did everyone else) :) But that does not mean I didn't enjoy it, you know. Just a little too much grape juice on an empty stomach :) I especially liked that we were supposed to serve grape juice to the person at our left four times during the ceremony, although for different reasons than it was practiced for. It reminds me of how Jesus wants us to serve each other. I think it was in the ceremony to make everyone feel like they had a personal servant for the meal, that's basically what E. said.
The real eating began after the ceremony. All of the food was delicious, from the funeral potatoes (Mormons... [Shakes head]) to the vegetable platter. But my favorite part was dessert, Yum. Cheesecake, chocolate dipped Matza bread, (Which I didn't have as I am on a sort of chocolate diet until June) butter cookies, (The food I made for the meal, unfortunately not very traditional, as I could not get a hold on any Matzo meal what-so-ever) and a couple of other cakes that I didn't try. I was too enamored with the cheesecake :)
Then our in-house person of Jewish ancestry (She was recruited to help make the Seder meal as authentic as possible, meaning she was our consultant) taught us three or four Jewish group dances. Lots of fun, although I am terrible at choreographed dancing. I never have been able to memorize or follow complicated dancing steps, not even for the three or four years I took ballet.
Our laughter echoed in the gymnasium as we tripped over eachother. I may not be a great dancer, but I love it anyway :)
I had a wonderful time, and I learned so much that I probably wouldn't have otherwise learned, I am so thankful I had such an opportunity in Sanpete county. (Of all places!) Thank you.....