I’m writing these words from my middle school office at The Davis Academy, Atlanta’s Reform Jewish Day School. And as I write, I can hear activity all around me. Chairs being moved in the classroom above me. The Front Desk phone ringing as parents come to grab their kids for end-of-day doctors’ appointments, student athletes […]
Blog
Change (#BlogElul 15)
Come to an old place in a new way hang around long enough and eventually you’ll ask what’s different this time around nothing and everything someone says go ahead and ask again everything and nothing someone says
Learn (#BlogElul 14)
learn yourself what makes you happy and what you do in that happiness what makes you sad and what you do with that sadness what makes you angry and where that anger lives within you what brings you peace and what you do with that peace what makes you smile and what your smile […]
Remember (#BlogElul 13)
remember that thing that happened and how it made you feel and what was said and what was done and what was unsaid and what was undone and who was there and who was absent and who was there without really being there and who was absent without really being absent and what came […]
Forgive (#BlogElul 12)
Forgive yourself forgive others forgive God forgive the universe forgive the past forgive the present forgive the future if you believe there is something that needs to be forgiven. But also know that everything that you’ve done, everything that has happened to you, whether human, divine, or self-afflicted, has already been transformed into something other […]
Observe
Another installation of #BlogElul I. Observe yourself Observe judgment welling up inside of you Observe judgment indiscriminately condemning any and all Observe its false sense of rightness and insight Observe the hardening effect in your ribcage as it locks the windows of your heart. II. Observe yourself Observe fear washing over you Observe fear […]