Category — Microblog Mondays

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Back in college, there was a daytrip that I never got to go on to a place called the House on the Rock. I didn’t have a car, so it’s remarkable that I managed somehow to get to the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum (twice!). But I never got to House on the Rock, and people would talk about it all the time.

It felt like all the cool kids got to go. And I was not one of the cool kids.

And then I forgot about it, entirely, until I read that Atlas Obscura article and all of the feelings came flooding back. How was I so close yet so far? Why couldn’t one of the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum trips be turned into a House on the Rock trip?

It’s kind of funny to still feel the same away about it when I literally forgot about its existence for the last 20+ years.

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On the “this doesn’t sound good” front: there seems to be a connection between PCOS and COVID-19. Namely, women with PCOS are at higher risk if they contract COVID-19. This quote says it all:

“‘PCOS is completely underestimated in its impact. It’s sort of seen as some reproductive issue that is not clinically relevant. But this is completely wrong … Patients need to be seen as a high-risk population,’ said Dr. Wiebke Arlt.”

In other words, women’s health is being swept under the rug yet again: “Despite how common PCOS is, as well as the serious complications it can come with, health experts say the condition has long been overlooked, misunderstood and under-researched, leaving patients to advocate for themselves or even educate practitioners to get treatment.”

If you have PCOS, read the CNN article. Cristy sent me the link, and I’ve now seen the news in a few places this week.

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It was just the 34th anniversary of my Bat Mitzvah. I know this because my Bat Mitzvah fell during the 17-year cicadas in 1987. Back then, due to the fact that there was no Internet and they didn’t cover the 17-year cicadas in Teen Beat magazine, I did not know they were coming until they were here.

Imagine my horror when I looked out the window of the car and saw the trees covered in cicadas crawling over each other, making the bark look like it was pulsating. And with no warning, I was going to have to run from said car into shul in my one-inch heels.

Though I imagine Bat Mitzvah girls this year are thinking, “You think you had it bad with just cicadas? I have to read Torah in a mask and project over the noise of the cicadas. You don’t know how good you had it.”

Fair point.

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I recently learned that in the US, Sunday is considered the first day of the week. Which is funny because the days of the week in Hebrew are literally “first day,” “second day,” “third day,” etc. And Sunday is Yom Rishon or “first day.” But even with that linguistic fact, I’ve always thought of Monday as the first day.

I purposefully chose a calendar that has the week set up as Monday to Sunday so it fit my mental counting of the first day of the week.

What do you consider the first day of the week, and do you match up with your country??

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I am all for normalizing death—it is a part of life—but I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the idea of thinking about death five times per day, an idea from Bhutanese culture.

More, I’m thinking about whether you can take a practice out of one culture and drop it into another and get the same results. Despite that, I thought this video was fascinating.

What is your reaction?

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