I Have No Idea What I'm Doing.

   Today is the Autumnal equinox as well as Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the most important day in the Jewish calendar, revered as a time for repentance, forgiveness, and starting fresh in a new year. The Autumnal Equinox is the balance between night and day, also a “new year” of sorts as it marks the end of the harvest and the time where we, the creatures of earth, start to settle in and bundle up for the cooler, then colder, months of the year before Spring springs again.    Today is also the most balanced day of the year: equal hours of day and night. Pagans and other “naturalists”, we’ll call them, often spend this day staying up all night to greet Autumn. They also suggest that if you can't stay up all night, stay up until midnight- that I can do. Maybe with a whiskey in hand. Probably with a whiskey in hand. At a bar. I think maybe I’ll go to the bar tonight, I'm having a pretty good hair day.    This is the first time since 1901 that Yom ...

 I haven't blogged in over a year FIVE YEARS, so what better time to re-enter the Blog-o-sphere than during the (Jewish) New Year. Here we go...    My father was not pleased when he asked if I knew it was Rosh Hashanah and I replied that I knew via Facebook. He then used this lack of High Holy Day awareness as an example of my denial of my Jewish identity and a reason for why unfortunate things happen to me. He was referring to my iPhone being washed away in a freak El Nino wave accident that weekend, now last Saturday. I also lost my wallet that day, having carelessly placed it on top of my friend’s car before we drove away (update: it has since been recovered by the kind people of Laguna Beach and is being held at the police station!), and my rose quartz crystal the weekend before, and my driver’s license the weekend before that. Suffice to say, weekends have not been kind to me, due in no small part to my affinity for fire water, I’m sure. I do not believe, ...