Not in the photo is the can of coconut whipped topping for the pie, and the jar of @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s cranberry sauce currently in the basement for serving with the turkey.

They are a delight. We bought one back in the summer of 2023 on our first trip up to Vancouver. I haven’t needed to replace the broom since then, and it looks pretty hanging up. If it were economical to ship them, they’d be my default housewarming gift.

These brooms are lovely. Sadly, they cost almost as much as the broom to ship because of the size of the box.

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Actually, with the good broom straw a proper Shaker flat broom is amazing on hardwood. We got ours at Granville Island Broom Company and love it so much that we bought it for gifts for the people who hosted our family & friends for the bat mitzvah.

Sure there are folks who don’t want to. But I think part of what’s stopping people from actually engaging in nuanced dialogue and productive work is the requirement that one side give up all claims to their parts of the pie before you can even start.

That is unacceptable. At my table there is always something substantial for everyone. Vegetarians get a protein. Omnivores get a protein. Everyone has sides they can eat.

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Palestinians are going to have to give up on the project of dismantling Israel. Israelis are going to have to give up on the idea that Jordan/Egypt is just going to absorb all the Palestinians and they’ll get the whole pie. The pie will need to be divided.

We need a model that refuses to require either side to abnegate their selfhood, one that promotes the actual concepts of coexistence. This is going to be hard for both sides to do.

But the Middle East doesn’t run on Western thought lines (it’s right there in the name why). So instead of imposing an inherently Western schema of Sainted Oppressed whom we must stand in solidarity with vs. Evil Oppressor whom we must oppose, we need a new model.

Antisemitism works by positioning Jews into whatever society thinks is Most Wrong Right Now. Right now it is wrong to be white, Jews are white but with extra special sauce. When it is wrong to be Not White, Jews are The Most Not White you can possibly be.

Because of how antisemitism works and our current oppressor vs oppressed (and associated skin color) schema of who gets to be objectively right, in this model Jewish Israelis are considered European White Oppressors and Palestinian Arabs are Oppressed Brown People.

The allyship/solidarity framework posits that one group is decidedly in the wrong and the other is objectively in the right. This works when discussing the systemic oppression of people of color in Western countries. This framework breaks down when you are talking about non-Western countries.

Instead of forcing all Jewish Israelis to abnegate their existence and apologize for surviving (same for Palestinians btw), we should be promoting cross narrative dialogue and work that says “no one is going anywhere, how do we live in this one tiny slice of earth without killing each other.”

It’s giving “I was cast to play Bruce Springsteen but don’t yet know how he does formalwear” energy.

Oh, I slapped him. Then we left.

Oh, welcome to the worst club.

Before he had children, my brother in law decided to be upset with how we were managing our overtired and hangry AF 4 year old. I asked him if he wanted me to slap him. He, not knowing I was dead serious, said yes.

We then left my in-laws and had leftovers at a friend’s house.

Burlap & Barrel sell them, and probably could rush ship to you, but I hear you that this is late in the game.