Mardi Gras In Magyarland
Nostalgia for home, poetic memory, Walker Percy, the last chapter
Welcome to Lent for you Western Christians who observe it. We Orthodox are going to be joining you on Monday. Back in the Great State of Louisiana, the people celebrated Mardi Gras this week, or as they call it in Budapest, “Kedd” (Tuesday). Back in 1999, when I was experiencing my first Mardi Gras in New York, my sister back in Louis…
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