shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


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The Sundial

It happened once that the people of Khelm made a sundial. But a rainstorm came along and drenched it. So the Khelmites built a roof over their sundial to keep it from getting wet.

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Glossary

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AnnotationsTELLER: Anon., from Galicia (southern Poland), (no date recorded)
COLLECTOR: Benyomin Volf Segel (pen name of B. V. Shiper).
SOURCE: Segel (1892), p. 29.

shel
@shel

man these Khelmites are so dumb haha people from Khelm just got dunked on. what angel went and spilled the jar of town fools all over Khelm am I right chavertes. fuckin' Khelm.


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