{"id":4627,"date":"2019-04-21T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:24:57","slug":"april-is-the-cruellest-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/21\/april-is-the-cruellest-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is the cruellest month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"April<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A pretty good summation of how one, or me anyways, doesn’t really feel that good about spring, when it first arrives, throwing off winter’s covers.<\/p>\n

Though we do get to celebrate spring holidays, like Passover & Easter, which I mostly do through food. In fact my understanding of the Passover sedar is that it actually IS<\/em> the story of the Jews flight from Egypt, though food. Matzoh, the bread of affliction; charoset, the paste made from dates & apples & nuts & sweet Passover wine that is often everyone’s favorite thing on the sedar plate, the mortar that held together the walls Pharoh made my people build; the salt water to dip parsley in, that I somehow made ridiculously salty this year, tears.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to enjoy spring and rebirth and all that good stuff, when the leaders of both Israel and the U.S. are crazy people with really bad ideas. In the Haggadah, where it says next year in Israel, I don’t really want to go there, unless there’s serious regime change by this time next year.<\/p>\n

I guess we’re doing the best we can.<\/p>\n

Twenty people for Passover. Mark and I debated on how to set up the tables and ended up with the usual arrangement of one table in the living room and one in the dining room, although I longed to have the them closer together. And we ate:<\/p>\n