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Shanah Tovah

The breath scent of mother fig under the chuppah of life time got sucked up into a late-summer straw fully enjoyed, fortunately, but fast fast fast leaving us reeling – never ready, breathless  standing under canopies of scarlet leaves,  in … Continue reading

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Blasting Complacency

When the same word floats up from the most disparate-seeming characters.  My yoga teacher. My poetry mentor. A black hat rabbi. The list would be disparate enough without Baudelaire – but the dark prince poet was at the forefront in demanding … Continue reading

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The Closing Rituals of Summer

We did it, we celebrated summer, in spite of it all.  We fulfilled the ritual, as we had to; the body needs its sense of itself, to immerse in water and shifting light and in joy.  It needs to entertain … Continue reading

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