Leshana Tova
Or Happy New Year to all the fellow Jews out there. Yes it's Rosh Hashanah!
So far my new year has started of being a bit rocky. If I can use a word to describe it, it would be "meh." That's not really a word but it's how I feel right now.
A quick rundown of the picture above. The apples and honey you see are a treat commonly served on this holiday to symbolize our wish for a sweet new year. The rams horn you see is called the shofar which is blown many times and very loudly at the services. A series of notes are played with one big final blast at the end. No one is sure how this tradition started but some see it as a call to repent for all your naughty sins that you did throughout the year. Sounds good to me.
Finally, many people will cast off all the bad stuff they did symbolically. This is done by throwing pieces of bread into flowing water. I performed this ritual after work. Our office is right by the ocean. I had bread from the Italian dinner I had earlier that day. Eggplant Parmesan if you were wondering. Anyway, I walked out to a very small cliff to be alone and was shocked to find a bunch of Mexican day labourers fishing and having a good time. It was 8:30 at night, but to each their own. I know they are day labourers because I see them standing on the corner early in the morning waiting for trucks to pick them up and take them to work. They'll work just about anywhere to earn some cash. Not an easy life, for sure, and there are a lot of them doing this.
So, once I found a private spot, I began my casting off. I felt some relief and the ocean breeze and moonlight were pleasant enough. I thought that I should do this more often as well. There was a very therapeutic value to it.
I found something that is both sinful and sweeter than apples and honey; Jewish model Moran Eizenstein. There's a 99.9% chance we'll never meet or date but it did make me feel a bit better and certainly less "meh."
Coming up ext on U N L O A D E D.........
Fear of falling.
