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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.-George Eliot (1819 – 1880) A personal thought Written as an American Sentence This must include tenderness (versus severity) towards ourselves. P.S. Yom Kippur (the holiest day of the year for Jews) runs from sunset on Wednesday to… Continue reading It is never our tenderness…
A gogyohka Love fills us That fullest & truest force of love Which is most pure & ever-present All-consuming in burning intensity With pain until we are gone forever
A senryu for Shabbat among family existence is localized universally
The meaning of life is that it stops.-Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924)
EPIGRAPH: The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.- Orson Welles (1915-85) Deceptive freedom Everywhere | boundaries Awareness sets free Shabbat & Pesach (Passover) Dear friends, I am offline for two days until sunset on Sunday so I will be unable to respond to your comments until then. I'll miss you 🙂
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or… Continue reading Power concedes nothing without a demand
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.-Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), New York Journal, 1961 Shared wisdom My poet-blogger-friend Suzette posts quotes every day (Suzette's blog is amazing) and shared Hemingway's words of wisdom (above) with me in a recent exchange of ours. I was expressing some frustration… Continue reading No one ever becomes a master
Internal obstacles to writing this entry I've been thinking of writing an ethical will entry on education for some time now, but it's been challenging for me to begin. For me, there are three obstacles: The strong personal association I draw between Judaism and placing a high value on education, which I worry may come… Continue reading Ethical will: Education
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