Speaker For The Diodes - July 16th, 2013

05:24 am - QotD

"During most of the year, I explicitly reject the victim mentality which looks at history through the lens of all of the awful things which have happened to us... but I've come to think that there may be value, once a year, in sitting with our painful history. Maybe if we go deep into these narratives today, we can free ourselves from the need to carry them with us every day as we live in the world. Maybe we need a day when we remember our collective traumas, from the Babylonians to the Romans to the Crusades, so that having immersed in those stories we can make the conscious choice to shape our narratives and to understand our place in the world differently." -- Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, aka The Velveteen Rabbi, regarding the holiday Tisha b'Av, 2011-08-09

(To my friends marking this day, may you have an easy fast. And to xpioti, happy birthday!)

Today is:
Gregorian: 2013 July 16
Hebrew: 5773 Av 09
Islamic: 1434 Ramadan 08
Persian: 1392 Tir 25
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.0.10.7