The Burrow

wikiart.org Big Cuter wanted to know why that guy has a towel and nails through his hands  when we were confronted with Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion at the Art Institute of Chicago. It's the central problem I had with teaching the Cuters about Easter.  I was stuck between bunnies and lambs and a crucifixion.  Nannie was eager to help, but she, too, was flummoxed.The bookstores weren't much help.  Their descriptions of the Last Supper and The Passion and The Resurrection were either glossed over or overly grotesque for a sensitive, half-Christian, half-Jewish, little boy.   We decided to stick with the bunnies and rebirth.  It was spring, after all. Passover presented some of the same issues.  Why did God want to kill little boys, my own son wondered. Walk softly and carry a big stick  came to mind as an answer, but it didn't do much to assuage his worry.  He was, after all, a first born son. I didn't worry about those issu...