We Write Our Own Torah with Our Lives and We Walk Together as One I want to speak about the blessed intersection where individuals and community meet. As Jews, this nexus is our most shining moment, the source of our greatest creativity and our deepest gift. It is what makes us a people bonded together all over the world, and linked through time and Continue Reading
Noticing: Jasmine, Hummingbirds and Mary Oliver
In a recent Jewish Meditation class, in the context of "Paying Attention and Being Present" as a core Jewish idea, we went to the front doorway, which is now arched with a gorgeous star jasmine bush fragrant, lush, heaven-scented. We together recited the blessing for experiencing a fragrant bush/tree: Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam,Borei Continue Reading
Poem for Erev (the eve of) Tax Day and the NaPoWriMo 2013
April 14 poem Such anxiety gripped in the stomach trying to slow it down this feeling of how am i ever going to wrap my head around the complexity? my brain does not compute doesn’t work this way is allergic to 1B, see form 1083, except if you are an X, in which case it is form 1083C gives me the chills: Continue Reading
Soul Shining
poem for day 11 a day of soul shining connecting on purpose for the good of this generation and the next - paving a way that can honor who and what has come before and discard the misplaced steps, the wrong turns, the hurts unspoken. a day committed to healing, to making things right, to leading with Continue Reading
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