Memento mori! –
Today is Ash Wednesday, you’re not being helpful –
please don’t try to wipe the the smudge mark off your friend’s forehead.
(Anyway, did you find the plastic baby in the King Cake? )
So begins forty days (remember that the six Sundays between today and Easter don’t count as part of the 40 days) of prayer, fasting, contemplation and community service and not the Lentil season, which is marked by forty days of legume eating and gas passing (but that’s another story.)
The Haus of Dcaligari 