Jan 3, 2019 | Counting the Omer, Judaism, Poems, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Workshops
Dear Friends~I enter 2019 with courage for the struggles ahead and hope for victories large and small. To that end, I send a poem, a prayer.My Victory(companion to Psalm 18, David’s Victory Song)My victory is your victory, is ourvictory, is the one talethat wants to...
Jun 18, 2018 | Nature, Poems, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ Those of you who have written in my kitchen with me or have read Through the Gates, know that the tiny house wren figures prominently in the chorus of inspiration we find here in spring. I am pleased to say the wrens are back this year, although they...
Mar 14, 2018 | Judaism, Poems, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ I hope this message finds you waking to the spring that is surely coming, in spite of all humans have done to disrupt our planet. We’re here. Still. And we too are rousing. I am heartened by the students and their allies flooding the streets and...
Nov 15, 2017 | Social Justice, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ For last week’s election, I spent the better part of the day handing out leaflets promoting the reform candidate for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, as well as a slate of Democratic judges, most of them women. The morning was cold for...
Mar 3, 2017 | Judaism, Performances, Poems, Publications, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Workshops
We are in this together. That is the only truth the White House is trying to teach us, precisely with its myriad lies. If we focus on different issues, it is because the issues are different the way the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle are different. They fit together...
Jan 25, 2017 | Judaism, Poems, Social Justice
Beloveds~ Last Saturday, on the day Donald Trump became president of the United States, Jews were reading the Torah portion (Exodus 1:1-6:1) in which the tongue-tied shepherd Moshe receives instructions–and a promise–from the burning bush. ...
