Le bon, le mauvais, et le laid

[luscious_purple]

This was one of those "it's always something" days. Yeah, it's tax day ... but it wouldn't be, yet, if I still lived in Massachusetts. It's Patriots Day, which means the Boston Marathon ... and the sixth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. For a couple of my friends, it's the anniversary of the death of one of their parents.

And then we had the breaking news of the fire at Notre Dame de Paris. Shocking and sad, and not just for the Middle Ages aficionados on my list of Facebook friends. One of the most magnificent touchstones of human civilization, not just for Catholics, but for civilization itself, I would say ... art and architecture and the human spirit. How can it just go up in smoke and flames? During Holy Week, no less?

And yet again ... this morning I read online that a couple of long-distance Facebook friends are expecting their first child this fall. They decided to make the announcement on tax day because they'll have a cute lil' additional deduction next year. I know they have been trying for a while, so I am glad for them.

Life goes on....

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[gorgeousgary]

There was one year the family seder on my father's side was held in Brookline, and it was the Friday before Patriots Day. We stayed through the weekend since it was also my high school's spring break, and I was able to walk out to Beacon Street to watch the Marathon go by.

There's also a family story about a funeral that started from a memorial chapel on or near Beacon Street on Patriots Day. The procession got bisected by the first group of runners.