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World of Curious Delights

Posted on June 27, 2021 by jillbpearlman

I usually like to run and immerse myself in a world of earthly delights.   It’s a yes-world, a way of soaking in color, judiciously chosen openness.   What would my first long-awaited travel be like, after being sprung from … Continue reading →

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“Wintering” becomes “Summering”

Posted on June 13, 2021 by jillbpearlman

“Wintering” is a season turned verb that served us during lockdown. During the 14-month hibernation, people proposed ways of thinking about dark days by developing a cool state of mind, lowering one’s emotional temperature so one could be nurtured by … Continue reading →

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Dream Bank for the Post-Covid World

Posted on May 30, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Collective dreaming, tons of it, was being reported early in the pandemic. It was a phenomenon of nocturnal spaces around the world.  I was thinking about that this morning around 4am, looking out from the second story window at a … Continue reading →

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Shock of the (Post-Covid) New

Posted on May 23, 2021 by jillbpearlman

How distanced we are from faces with their expressive truths, how shocked by the lower halves of faces we’ve never seen.  Put these little jolts alongside big jolts, and you have emotional minefields.  It seems that everyone, upon emerging, is seeing … Continue reading →

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The Rise and Fall of Mother’s Day

Posted on May 9, 2021 by jillbpearlman

I dedicate a dandelion to Anna Jarvis who, having founded Mother’s Day, spent an entire lifetime trying to undo it.  Her success in 1914 quickly became overscented, oversweet, oversentimentalized by the profiteers of capitalism, and within years, she was desperate … Continue reading →

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The Carpe Diem Dilemma

Posted on April 25, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Oh, moralizing culture! Since we have so little understanding of where we are, there will be endless pronouncements of where we are. Certainties about what we’ve learned from the pandemic, and prophetic images of our future.  The more we don’t … Continue reading →

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A Season of Yellow

Posted on April 18, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Yellow, how do we read you?  Sickly or simple as happiness?  Simple as just living without ponderous thought.   Daffodils in their junior prom dresses.  Come rain, come light snow petals quiver but they don’t drop.   Forstyhia too.  On … Continue reading →

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Eternal Memories in the Eternal City

Posted on April 4, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Eternal memories from the Eternal City, Rome, 2018, from the weeks we were lucky enough to spend in Testaccio. That year, religious holidays fell at the same time — Passover Seder was finishing as Easter bells began to ring.   In … Continue reading →

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Speak, Kafka: What the Maxwell House Haggadah didn’t share

Posted on March 26, 2021 by jillbpearlman

The Jewish way of telling things is famously contentious and fractured; stories get started, then start again differently (doesn’t an Origin story imply a single origin? Think again!)  The surface is not linear, stories grab you, then leave a key part … Continue reading →

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That Old Keen Darkness

Posted on March 14, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Rooster consciousness,the rooster that sees light in darknessrooster announces the light while submerged in darknessfrom the deepest place as it’s starting to turn soon we’ll be in light, you can feel itit teases, it plays in spring dazzlethat exhilaration, that … Continue reading →

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