Dan Jackson/Manifest Photography -Haggadah Project

Caroline from New Mexico interjected with another one of her bon mots. That she wouldn’t visit any mosques because they may be funding terrorism. I almost choked on my water. I was tempted to casually add that I don’t visit cathedrals because they harbour child molesters. I held my tongue though. Ha’am d’Allah nobody else heard her. Caroline is in her 50’s, about 5’1”, a bit pudgy with a conservative haircut. Her small stature appears all the more diminutive because it’s attached to a giant mouth. Her husband Bob is tall, bald with thick black framed glasses and one of those absurd looking Amish beards that somehow suited him. He’s an Astronomer and is smart but intellectually monotonous. Anything outside his realm of expertise is immediately dismissed as unworthy of consideration. He’s a nerd with a swagger derived from a self-professed intellectual superiority. His only other interest is sitting by the phone waiting for Mensa to call.