KEN'S HOLIDAY PLAYLIST

 Cousin Ken sent me his holiday playlist. It's fabulous !

my holiday playlist -

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=K2eFbRzOIkg&list=PL1gwm2jMTnzyVrQB5sNCcBa4bKp6bYXCX

FELIZE NAVIDAD + HANUKKAH IN SANTA MONICA

Happy Holidays, Felize Navidad, Merry Christmas and Happy Winter Solstice

WINTER SOLSTICE 2020 3:45PM

 

Below is a picture from my friends Ron and Pam showing their Christmas tree and Wine Bottle Menorah. Very creative. Wishing everybody good health, good heart, good harmony and a way, way better year than 2020 - which is in the rear view mirror....

HSH HOLIDAYS 2020 Humboldt st. house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmological events are playing out on the Solstice. Jupiter and Saturn can be seen near each other, an event last seen 400 hundred years ago. Read more here:

"As 2020 comes to a close, the solar system has decided to grace us with a cosmic Christmas miracle that hasn't been witnessed in nearly 800 years. On Dec. 21 (aka the December solstice), Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in the night sky that they'll almost appear to collide from our vantage point here on Earth, creating a radiant point of light often referred to as the "Star of Bethlehem" or the "Christmas Star."  Yahoo.  

Ken sent me a rousing rendition of Hanukkah In Santa Monica sung by Sam Braverman:A Jewish Boys Christmas. In English and Yiddish ! Cool. I believe Adam Sandler wrote that song, I've heard him sing it. If I find that version I will post it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAPPY CHANUKAH

 

HAPPY CHANUKAH

 

 

 

I lit my candles last night, the third night using the Chanukah menorah Bernice gave me. 

 

 

  the back of the photo has a handwritten note, "making latkes Chanukah, 1998, that's a fake frown"  :-)

 

ARCH OF TITUS, ROME, 70 AD

Bernice told me Roby really liked this image. You can go to Rome today and see it. It commemorates the Destruction of the Temple of Solomon and shows the plunder of ritual objects such as the golden menorah in the Temple. We are still here lighting our own menorahs or chanukiyyot in hebrew :-)

 

GUEST BLOGGER KEN

Happy Thanksgiving belated. We are now in the holiday season during the  still raging covid-19 virus. A lot has happened. We have a new President-elect, Joe Biden. Even though there will be lasting damage, it feels like a great weight has lifted - instead of government by tweet, we might get reason, science, knowledge, diplomacy, Competence and....Leadership ?!?! Of course we are still being subjected to the denial tweets coming from the current occupant who refuses to acknowledge the Biden win. So although Biden won, the prez is issuing denials and rants and wants to overturn the election. And his Republican enablers are allowing it. Most of them also deny Biden won. It's a vulnerable, dangerous time here in America until January 21st, and beyond. The strategy is to de-legitimize the Biden Harris win. Forever. They are not giving up.

Roby's yahrtzeit is coming up. December 17th is ten years in the english calendar. December 17th corresponds to 11 Tevet in the jewish calendar, December 26th. We light the candle at sundown the night before. His yahrtzeit is at sundown, Christmas Day, erev Shabbat....

Ken summed up the latest political theater probably better than I could although we both like to rant!

Guest blogger: Ken

dear C,

just because i have been out of touch w/ u does not mean that i have not not thought of u when every weirdness, injustice & hypocrisy i read about does not make me think u would be interested.

but - ladies & whomever - welcome to the rant:

1. Hanukkah - like the goyim say - miracles happen. & happy it to u.

2. Fla gov desantis was at the trump presser/ or as i think of it, a peacock display /where he was taking credit for the vaccine earlier this week when he had nothing do w/ it except for filling out the choir.

re: Rebekah Jones the Florida data scientist whose home was raided

desantis said "gee - i didn't know anything about it" - like when David duke endorsed trump &f he said "gee i never heard of him."  (totally believable).

3. re: the four battleground states the Texas attorney general is suing in the supreme court to overturn the results, if accepted would allow Massachusetts to complain about how Texas elects its senators.  (btw 100 republican house members endorse the Texas suit.) so we are going to unite as one country very soon.

madness.

re: trump & the retrumplicans are -

as the mayor of Munchkin City put it, morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead.

enough.

be well - safe & such.

i am taking obsessive compulsive precautions &  will do so for the foreseeable future.

i can read, watch & listen to just so much of people who have to steal to feed their kids or evicted into the winter & then politics fade away.

this is the biggest shitstorm since the depression.

i left all this pain for last 'cause it's the hardest.

i cannot wait to read the histories of this time long after i die.

best, ken 

I LOVE the 'retrumplicans' and The Wizard of Oz reference - brilliant ! I 'bolded' the Wizard of Oz line. It's fabulous - so appropriate :-)