#easter feast

It was satisfying to have an abundance of excellent soup dumplings and assorted main course dishes in Fort Lee for Easter after the strictness of Lent and Good Friday. Literally the first time eating outside since February. Crab and Pork Soup Dumplings, Tofu with crab, Tofu noodle soup, Chicken with eggplant, Baby Shrimp, Yeung Chow Fried Rice and Lo Mein (at Soup Dumpling Plus) Instagram link

Starting prep for Easter dinner. It feels like it’s been ages since I cooked anything that involved much effort. This evening’s menu: - Smoked ham in a smoky spiced glaze - Duck roasted with herbs - Funeral potatoes (cheesy potato casserole) - Carrots in orange brown butter sauce - Caramelized brussel sprouts and bacon - Marinated mushrooms - Broccoli and bacon salad (don’t need a whole pound for the brussels 😉) - Brioche buns And then we have duelling cakes for dessert! Pineapple upside down and black forest 😊

For the moment it seems that this was a merely accident and in anyway a terrorist atempt. However, I can remember these days are very dificult for christians in the last years.

And I must say, not only for christians. 

Two years ago, the United States army throwed a bomb to Aphganistan, the very day of Good Friday, causing the death of millions of people. 

I remember one Easter Sunday a group of christian people (the mayority families with children) in a park was murdered by a terrorist.

My point: The Holy Week is a hard time for everyone. 

It’s my tradition around these days, since I started being aware of those events, and after I started my Christmas tradition inspired by the Christmas Truce of 1914, to dedicate my prayers asking to God for peace, forgiveness and understanding between nations and religions all around the World, at least for one day, the very day of Easter Sunday. That these horrible events wouldn’t have place anymore...

I don’t want to be the only one. I would like to ask you to join me, even if your beliefs aren’t the same as mine, in a single prayer. That this feast can be a reminder of what God wants from us.

And, mostly, instead of criticize those christians that act against their religion teachings, harming gravely in the name of Christ, making Him suffering again the same pain of the cross, offending God hugely, or to criticize those non-christians who, gravely wounded by the damages, driven by the hate born from despair, pain, loss, make these terrorist attacks...

Let’s be the christians that apologize in the name of those who doesn’t....

The christians opened to good and healthy dialoge with our religion brothers...

The christians that make good in the name of God, that look for the wellfare of others.

The christians that look for friendship and understanding instead of hate.

As the Cathedral of Notre Dame can be restored over the ashes, let’s be the christians that restore the Holy Church.

I beg you, let’s start with the right foot, let’s spread love and comfort to our damaged brothers. 

PLEASE, STOP THE HATE PEOPLE OF OUR SAME RELIGION STARTED. 

The first 4/13 without an upd8 has come and passed (unless you count the Hiveswap trailer), but we're still here in the throes of Act 5, so let's get to it!

This time: Murders, mystery, smooching, and fanatical revelations on the meteor while John and Jade finally get to catch up. Karkat turns his back on the body. Pages 5221 to 5322.

Hamometer reading: 41.84%.

Next time: Further murders and further mysteries, still on the meteor and potentially elsewhere. Ancestors turn out to be terrible bad role models. Somebody else turns out to be a paradox. Pages 5323 to 5416. 

We want to give a CW for page 5407 in next week's reading for sexual assault. You can skip the page and still understand the story just fine.

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