Content notes: death of a child, serious health challenges for child and spouse, medical trauma

I was reminded, we also don't know who was horrible abused by their mother or turned out and trafficked by their mother. We don't know how badly this maternal hagiography greeting falls because people have learned to keep it off their faces in order to survive the day.

I still have .edu addresses from my degree granting institutions 😎

Indeed. Who showed up for me during my divorce and then last year’s ankle fiasco? The church (duh the people).

one of the reasons to do cross-disciplinary stuff is because it's quite common for someone to be looking at a problem and then realize that another field has been looking at for for fifty years.

Fun fact #2: a chapter of *We Are All Chile* is about the civil war of 1891 - and how lament and grief shape remembrance, how a society elides memories of violence, how it deals with discontinuities in its overarching narrative. I’m looking forward to reading *Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle* 📖

This was ages ago (at least 20 years, other side of the US), but it obviously stuck with me. And is the opposite of what I understand the Gospel to mean…

And today, Holy Saturday, I got to meditate on the prisoners of hell freed by Christ and it gives me so much hope, even as I wait for the resurrection. ⚓️

The Good Friday liturgy brought out some of the emotion I usually feel during the Triduum, which surprised me because usually Maundy Thursday is that point for me

I prayed the psalms at the altar of repose, and my parish seems to be finding better ways to accommodate this practice. Also, praying the psalms from 150-1 was SO WEIRD but also good

Despite my inclinations against it, I ended up feeling like I had to do it because it was so hard for me to accept the help I needed when I was injured in the past year. It’s been a discipline to allow myself to be helped, to be served. So I did the foot washing and damn it God was right. ⚓️

Maundy Thursday is my 2nd favorite day of the year (after Easter). The message of John 13:34-35 is central to my life. As a kid liturgical foot washing functioned like another way to show who was in or out (like only the vestry get feet washed, by clergy, etc).