This is not my holiday, so this has not been any sort of
religion-related day for me (except for having matzah pizza, one of my
favorite Passover treats, for lunch). But, nonetheless, it has been a
very good Friday. As I was not working (union holiday for some unions),
and my kids are still on vacation, it was a largely unstructured day--a
bit of sleeping, coffee with a friend, and digging through the rubble in
my apartment, created in my virtual absence over the last two weeks. My
kids have risen to the occasion of self-sufficiency pretty well, but
being my children, they are not exactly compulsively neat.
So what makes a good Friday? Time to talk to my high schooler, who is
often so busy doing homework that she can't even think. A daylight walk
in my neighborhood and a bus ride to another neighborhood without strict
time limits. Being able to spend a little money on my kids or myself
after a year of worrying about almost every penny. Breathing the air in
my apartment and knowing that I can do it for a few days but won't have
to do it every hour of every day. A good Friday is a day when I can look
back on the past week and forward to the coming week--and feel lucky about both.
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