Automotive Acne (Productions): March 2024

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Holy Week: Easter Sunday - Cascarones (*)

Carefully crack a dozen or more eggs, preserving at least 3/4s of each shell. Good time to make some omelettes & pancakes. Note: keep egg-carton for saved shell storage.

Wash/clean interior of eggshells. Let dry..

Dye empty eggshells, let dry again. Fill shells with confetti and glue/top eggshell opening with colored tissue, sorta forming "cone-head shape".

Again, use egg-carton for shell storage until scattering/hiding the celebratory cascarones in yard for the kiddies/youngsters’ Easter Sunday egghunt.

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Finally, Let the kids enjoy breaking & smashing their Easter basket collection of celebratory confetti cascaron eggs on each other's heads!! Where?? Outdoors, not inside a residence.

Fun stuff. Messy stuff.

(*) Cascaron

\Cas`ca*ron"\, n. [Sp. cascar['o]n.] Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Holy Week: Silent Saturday

“Now pay attention to this. G*d is nameless for no one can either speak of him or know him. Therefore a master says that what we can know or say of the First Cause reflects ourselves more than it does the First Cause, for this transcends all speech and all understanding . . . He is being beyond being: he is a nothingness beyond being. Therefore St. Augustine says: ‘The finest thing that we can say of G*d is to be silent concerning him from the wisdom of inner riches.’ Be silent therefore, and do not chatter about G*d, for by chattering about him, you tell lies and commit a sin. If you wish to be perfect and without sin, then do not prattle about G*d.”

― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings