#BlogElul 15 — Renewed Health

September 2, 2012

**written in August 2010** I continue to be amazed at how we play the roles in which we were cast. Whether assigned by others or self-assigned, it is all too easy to by type-cast and stuck in the same role for years. Amazing, too, how an ordinary event can bring about a dramatic recast. It […]

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#BlogElul 13 — Full of…Excuses

August 31, 2012

Excuse {\ik-ˈskyüs\} Noun: A reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense. I think, sometimes, that the word ‘excuse’ is used interchangeably with ‘reason.’ I think of myriad events, activities, invitations that I turn down because of Ben’s autism, always offering some version of the following excuses: I’m sorry; I […]

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#BlogElul 12 — In Your Image

August 30, 2012

בצלם אלהים b’tzelem Elohim — in the Image of God. These words come easily to the lips of my children and their contemporaries. We reiterate them in our religious schools, our camps, even in the contemporary Jewish music we teach them. We are — each one of us — created in God’s Image. But when […]

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#BlogElul 11 — Change: Not Always for the Better

August 29, 2012

Change is hard. There are no two ways about it; change, even when it is a positive one, is fraught with challenges. Some of which can really put one far outside of one’s comfort zone. And that is where, when it comes to finding my spiritual home, I find myself: far outside of my comfort […]

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#BlogElul 10 — Memory Contained Within

August 28, 2012

Ode to a Wooden Spoon Thou slender, lean with dependent strength Thou hast turned throughout the years. Mixing, folding with perfect faith Cherished recipes that act as mirrors. Pancakes with secret ingredients, Hamantaschen, prune or mohn? Serving once to dull the pain of penetrating wounds, now gone. Dinners blended with rapt expedience Turning, swirling like […]

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