Second loaf

This one was a little spelt flour, a little unbleached wheat flour, with olive oil, honey, raisins, herbs and sea salt.

Very tasty, peppery with a bite to it. Strong and a little dry.

Let’s get together and feel alright

All faiths are one, in the end. We practice in different ways and we use different words and we make different rituals for ourselves, but even scientists are one with us. Even the most atheistic believes in something, and that thing he or she believes in, call it what you will, is the same thing I am talking about, and the same thing that Christians and Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists are talking about.

We have different habits, for a variety of reasons. One family teaches to respect bread and wine, and from this family a large number of rituals developed. So regarded were the bread and wine that prayers were to be said over them every night, and they were to be shared. This is the core of Judaism in the conservative and reform traditions, as I experienced it. There was a lot more to it than that, of course, a lot of traditions passed down by play-acting ancient dramas, but in each of these stories the bread was so prominent. Exodus is about the bread of affliction, the manna from heaven.

Risen bread is the essence of Christianity, too.

Wine, like bread, is fermented by a yeast.

So is cheese, but this is part of another tradition.

So are many other things.

We should share our recipes, and stop fighting.

Postscript: Speaking of atheists, a lot of them drink beer, which is also yeast.

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The Book of Genesis

in Musical form.

Don’t stop, continue

Here comes the Sun

Pamela quotes Sun Microsystems,

Sun believes deeply in creating communities and sharing innovations and technologies to foster more participation. Today in a historic move, Sun is opening the door to greater innovation by open sourcing key Java implementations—Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)—under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), the same license as GNU/Linux.

I say, it’s alright.

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Wednesday catblogging

YouTube was down for awhile last night.