[Photo by: KPA]

Mezgebe Tselot (Book of Prayers), my mother's copy at her bedside.

This is what my mother reads every night, with a prayer for each night of the week.

"What day is it?"

"What day is it tomorrow?"

Then she finds the page she has carefully marked for the day/night, reads her prayer, marks the page for the following night, then is ready for another, peaceful, long night of sleep.