February 14, 2024
Ash Wednesday
Read the Eliot poem online, as my books are unavailable in the mess. The poem isn’t good, and yet very famous. One stops trying to figure things out.
Rudy and his helper banging away downstairs. He mentioned being finished sometime next week. I couldn’t think of anything to say. Neither reason nor outcry changes anything. Lent starts very Lent-like, a gray mood for this bright blue day.
Dilemma after the Imposition of Ashes: The scripture is the one from Matthew warning against displaying your piety in public and going about with a pained face when you fast. Is wearing the cross of ashes in public displaying your piety? Signaling that you’re about to fast and deny yourself? Is not wearing it a denial of your faith? I sat in the Walgreen’s parking lot wanting to get my prescription, wondering whether to rub the ashes off or not, witnessing or boasting?
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