ยป Mardis Gras!
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty day fast of Lent (Sundays don’t count), the day to have burnt palm leaves in oil rubbed into one’s third eye (Matt 4:1).
Fat Tuesday, Mardis Gras, today, is the last day to eat all of your food and drink all of your drink and collect all of your beads so you won’t be tempted.
I did the fast when I was at HB to “beat” Rami at Ramadan. It puts you very much in touch with the natural rhythm: A couple of weeks in I could tell you when sunset would be within 30 seconds on any given day.
Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.
The geis of the fast isn’t easy: It encompasses The Feast of St. Patrick.
Jack
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