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Old Roots, Fresh Eyes You may know that a portion of the Torah (as in the five books of the Old Testament) is traditionally read in synagogue every Shabbat. The Torah is split into 52
Many of you know I come from a rather traditional Jewish background. (If you didn’t, now you do.) The particular microculture I grew up in was a poor fit for my quirky mind and emotional
The More You See, the More You Understand In prior letters, I mentioned the idea of learning to see your own beauty. Now this sounds like a lot of fluff and I would have thought
So the rubber meets the road. I need to get a newsletter out and I’m at the end of a frustrating day. My mind is tired and the thoughts are coming on thick. It’s really
Why People Cry When They Get the Golden Buzzer Have you ever noticed how people react to getting the golden buzzer on America’s Got Talent? Much of the time, they have a strange reaction: they
I kind of don’t like that she called it the Mirror of Erised — just writing a word backwards seems cheap relative to the rest of this brilliantly imagined story. If you have managed to
If one thinks of Eden in modern conformation, this is what one might imagine. The doors open for you, no hand need be lifted. Some mysterious thing we call electricity, but which we might just
Last letter, I wrote about how the water we need is all around us and we just need to remember how to drink it. I don’t mean this is as some feel good poetry —
Success Each of us has our idea of success — our moments driven by it, our minds addicted to it. It may be a vague idea or an articulated one, but once we get there,
Coming Home We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets I
