Aug 23, 2017 | Nature, Poems, Uncategorized, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ I hope this message finds you enjoying the luscious fruits of late summer as you move through the blessings and challenges of your prescious days in these roiling times. Wendy and I have returned from our summer travels—a week of Jewish Renewal in the...
May 22, 2017 | Counting the Omer, Judaism, Nature, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ I have been writing my way through the Omer again, a new book of letters and poems in the works. Between the added time at my desk (which I love) , two on-going Writing Circles and political work (which I also love), life is full. I trust yours is as...
Dec 5, 2016 | Judaism, Nature, Poems, Social Justice
Dear Friends ~ I had thought to be silent in these pages for at least a week after my last post, but yesterday’s victory at Standing Rock—whatever comes next—calls for a song: My Victory (Meditation on Psalm 18, David’s Victory Song) My victory is your victory,...
Nov 16, 2016 | Judaism, Nature, Poems, Social Justice
Dear Friends ~ The first week has passed: seven days of living in the shadow of this new reality: President-Elect Donald Trump. For many of us this has been a week of mourning, a kind of Shiva. I have done my share of weeping. And raging, even as I followed my...
Nov 1, 2016 | Nature, Poems, Social Justice, Workshops
Dear Ones~ With many of you, this Fall I have been cheering vigorously for the “Water Protectors” of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their heroic challenge to the fossil fuel industry, I sense in this powerful movement of indigenous people—and in the...
Sep 29, 2016 | Judaism, Nature, Poems
Friends~ In my last post, I invited you to explore the mysteries beneath the forest floor with this astonishing Radio Lab podcast, From Tree to Shining Tree. I hope you are feeling wonderfully supported and inspired by the intricate relationships beneath our wandering...