A makeshift guide to recognizing poetry outside of paradise.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
From the White House to the holy house
On June 6th, Alysa Stanton will become America's first female black rabbi. The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati will help make history by ordaining Stanton, who was raised Pentecostal. Mazeltov, girlfriend!
"Life's dirty. Life's unclean. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey pies. That's us. We're fabulous."
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