Greetings, bookish friends! Rosh Hashanah was last weekend, and while I didn’t make it to dinner with my family, I did share a delicious meal with my best friend. I also spent a while thinking about the sweetest things from the past year. This is a family tradition. Every year at Rosh Hashanah, everyone writes down their sweetest thing (or things) on a slip of paper. We put them all into a basket, past it around, and read them out. We’ve been doing this for more than 20 years now. My mom has all the slips saved in an album. It’s an incredible record.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, involves several traditions surrounding sweetness. We eat apples and honey to symbolize hope for a sweet year ahead. This is where my family’s sweet things tradition comes from—we don’t share what we’re proud of or thankful for, or what we loved or enjoyed the most. We share our sweetest things.
Part of why I love this tradition so much is that it reminds me, always, every single year, that sweetness exis…
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