that this warms my heart:
A Senator's Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable. - NY Times
I would also like to start wearing a mezuzah necklace, and have one at my house.
MAZEL TOV.
(Or something like it.)
I think this post on Conference Street Fashions is so cute!
Being Mormon does not mean you have to take on a fashion palate as frumpy as your elementary school teacher's themed sweaters.
Check out the personalities!
This look was my favorite:
Contains my favorite elements:
juxtaposition of hard and soft i.e. a patterned breezy dress (soft) with leather jacket (hard);
splash of gray for a functional scarf (it was cold that day!), and last but not least FIERCE utilitarian urban shoes.
Loved the GC this weekend.
(Utah's obsessed with acronyms i.e. OMG, did you see the RSP and the EQP in the JSB playing hooky from FHE?)
General Conference- it's where all the Mormons in the world tune in and hear from our main leaders and are reminded how much we are loved by God and other great uplifting things. Semi-annually. This year, there was a constant theme of SERVICE and LOVE expressed.
I love cutting through the cultural nonsense and getting back to basics with GC. Because ironically it's the fundamentals, the essence, that culture tends to mess up, at least for me. Even though I am not perfect myself, sorry Utah, but I get really frustrated with fanatical hyper-righteous interpretations I see here.
My faves: Uchtdorf and Bednar from Saturday AM session, and Holland Sunday PM session (there are 4 main 2-hour sessions).
How about you?
I don't have a particularly memorable 'where were you on 9/11' story (as if it matters)- except for the fact that my high school teachers did not let us watch footage (it was onward with their lesson plans) ... so I confirmed the nightmarish rumors back at home circa 3pm PST.
But what is memorable is the unity and hearkening back to values our country experienced. My favorite gospel principle is that of remembering who I am: a child of God. Puts everything in perspective.
It's why I go to church, why I pray, why I study the valuable lessons found in ancient scripture: to remember where I came from and where I'm going.
Kind of like this sister missionary for my church who serves in Chinatown NYC.
(Click on link for slideshow)
Snowboarded Snow Basin Monday, and let's just say, I finally, truly, really understand ski/boarder junkies now.
10 runs in 3 hours due to the combination of hauling it down the mountain and fast gondolas, where we had lots of chit-chat with older people who inspired me to live well.
Glorious.
In a nutshell, from a gem of a lady from Oregon we met:
"You've got to keep moving, because as soon as you sit down, it's over!"
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Just for the record, I know the girl who made the error, and she is probably one of the sweetest people I know. I would have so rather taken the guilt over this than her because trust me, she doesn't deserve it.
I also know Rich Evans (quoted in the above article...mocked in the not-worth-your-time comments), and he is a really really decent, humorous, and upstanding guy who made the BYU newsroom fun for my tenure there.
I think he said it best in his Facebook status update yesterday: "Rich Evans is tired of getting feedback from people who have lived mistake-free lives."
Really, it's all about the media being dissuaded thinking there is a story over the fuss created by disgruntled ex-Mormons trying to take a whack at their former religion any way they can.
Just like the Octomom has annoyingly dominated the news for a while, the fact that this warranted an AP story must mean there are not many newsworthy things to report. Hmm.
Dear journalists,
Hate to break it to you, but you're only making yourselves look uninformed. And in the media, being uninformed equals bad.
I urge you to put two and two together.
Thanks,
Alex
My mom and I are really good friends....
We joke sometimes how we were in the premortal existence and played rock/paper/scissors to decide who would come down to Earth first.
...such good friends, we have silly pet names for each other. All two of them:
a) Bubbala (a yiddish term for "darling/dearest"...often we clip it to "Bubbs")
or
b) Charita...who I will discuss...
My mom went through the public school system in 1970s Los Angeles, and Charita was a mean black girl...
(I say 'black' in all politically correct detail purposes...it's no secret my mom secretly wants to be African-American)
...who bullied my mom and even threatened to beat her up once (that's when my grandparents offered to put my mom in private school if she wanted).
I really like the Church Newsroom's Web site, because it cuts through a lot of rumors that swarm about Mormon culture.
For example, I thought this was a very dignified response to what is being disrespectfully exploited on Big Love.
For elites of the film industry to claim they're tolerant, then rashly show things we regard as sacred, is maddeningly disrespectful.
For example, it's like if you approached a Muslim woman and demanded she remove her hajib because, oh I don't know, you were curious to see what she looked like...regardless of reason, it's just so offensive!
The amount of hajib a woman covers herself with is a personal decision, and we should all respect that woman for covenanting with Allah in the way she has decided!
Go here if you'd like to give HBO feedback. It takes two seconds.
I didn't weep and rail on them, I simply just said that I find their exploitations offensive and intolerant.
