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Easter parade
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood had its first annual Easter Parade Saturday. The parade and crowd was small but full of enthusiasm despite the gray, chilly morning. Above, a group of school children are dressed duckishly.
Below: Easter Bunny, Fredbird, Ronald McDonald and an itinerant juggling giant hang out in the staging area; the final float turns the corner of Euclid and Maryland.
TOMORROW: flood waters
Easter prayer
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Greetings readers! The Contrarian and I wish all of you the most blessed of Easter holidays.
On this, the most joyous day for Christians, let us remember all those throughout the world who are less fortunate than we are.
On this day of eternal hope and thanksgiving for such a loving God, I ask that you pause a moment and meditate on these sentiments:
Dear Lord and Most Loving God:
May there be a day soon when all people in all lands find sufficient food, clothing and shelter for the day.
May there be a day soon when all people in all lands receive good educations, good health care, and and meaningful work adequately compensated.
May there be a day soon when all people in all lands have the time and ability to enjoy reasonable leisure time.
May there be a day soon when all people in all lands have the right to speak their minds about their governments without fear of recrimination.
May there be a day soon when all peoples in all lands are respected as human beings regardless of differences in religion, culture and life style.
May there be a day soon when all peoples in all lands are free from fear of war, genocide, and violence of any kind.
We know that this is possible, because You are God. Give us your grace to work for these goals.
Amen.
Enjoy dear (and many of you are quickly becoming dear) friends, and don’t eat too much!
Tomorrow, we shall get back to normal business.
Target easter hours
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Easter Sunday is a great opportunity to make food. We overslept this morning and didn’t have time to go to the laundromat, so I took advantage and made a more complicated breakfast than usual. It’s not brunch, because I don’t see myself skipping lunch today, but it was late enough that it could replace my morning snack. So it’s brack. My plan was to make apple-cinnamon pancakes. This is something we get at Edesia’s, but I wasn’t in the mood to take a shower, go outside, wait 2 hours for breakfast, and spend a lot of money, so I decided to try it at home. I made oatmeal pancakes (sans banana) and then put baked apples on top. Since it was a special occasion, I actually went a little overboard on mine. I decided to recreate my Almond Joy Oatmeal (oatmeal with some coconut, sliced almonds and a few chocolate chips) in pancake form. It was a little much and didn’t go with the baked apples so well, but I didn’t want to waste food, so I ate it anyway.
Here it is with coffee (it looks teeny but the coconut seemed to make it thicker than usual, so it was pretty hearty):
Note the Easter-appropriate colors.
I feel completely at a loss for what I should do today. The gym is closed. Target is closed. Obviously there’s basketball. And I suppose I could catch up on all the things I’ve been putting off - more cleaning, working on taxes, laundry, writing project for work. Or maybe I’ll take a walk.
Stores open on easter
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Last Sunday was Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week in Christendom. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter, ends Holy Week and the season of Lent.
In the Philippines, practically the whole nation took the day off on Good Friday and everything was at a standstill. All stores were closed, some as early as Holy Wednesday. On Holy Saturday, stores open and put up displays for Easter –Easter bunnies and Easter egg hunts.
While the commercial world prepares to exploit Easter, the Catholic world (the Philippines is predominantly Catholic) prepares for the ritual “Salubong” –meeting in English. The ritual celebrates the first meeting (after the Crucifixion) of the Risen Christ and His Mother.
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