by admin | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog
Hello Dutch, Here I am again. Despite visiting your grave throughout the year, the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur always feels the most potent, and this year, because I made the trip alone and not in the service of others, it feels even more sacred....
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Blog
In an alternate universe, you would have turned 70-years-old today – three score years and ten! But in my universe, you are Forever 55. Your last birthday picture at 55 almost didn’t happen because I was too busy preparing to fly to England the next day. It was our...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear” wrote C. S. Lewis in his opening line of “A Grief Observed”. These words reverberated in my head as I sat in my living room clutching my heart, wondering why I felt so afraid. After all, it was my day off and all I...
by admin | May 19, 2021 | Blog
Passover was always Mike’s favorite holiday. For a man who loved food, at first this surprised me, because while the table was lavishly set, there were so many food restrictions, the food was different, and the only thing he ate was meat and potatoes. He said my...
by admin | May 19, 2020 | Blog
His face changed. It happened just after he stepped on the stage. Dressed in a black robe and a white Sufi cap, he walked slowly from the left wing of the stage and stopped. Slowly, he removed his black robe and gently folded it to the ground. He stepped forward, now...
by admin | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog
The room is tiny and clinical, the beautiful view of living trees seen from the window belie the end of life that is occurring in this room. My voice rises with the plaintive sound of Kol Nidre, sung only for the 99-year-old woman in this hospital room who has asked...
