Daily Dose (Sept 23 – 26)
TUESDAY SEPT 23 -- “Why am I afraid to dance,I who love music and rhythmand grace and song and laughter?Why am I afraid to live,I who love life and the beauty of fleshand the living colors of the earth and…
Daily Dose (September 16 – 19)
TUESDAY SEPT 16 -- "We live in times when polarization seems to be one of the words of the day, but it's not helping anybody," Pope Leo XIV said yesterday in an interview.And this week in Sabbath Moment, we are…
Daily Dose (September 9 – 12)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 -- Caroline was very sad. Caroline was only six years old, and her father had just died. In fact, her father had been assassinated.Sitting in the back of big black limousine, Caroline Kennedy didn't quite know what…
Daily Dose (September 2 – 5)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 -- On this Labor Day, I did something atypical or me. I put my pen down. And ceded to a day to rest.A good walk in the woods, a chat with two very young boys, ecstatic, hunting…
Daily Dose (August 26 – 29)
TUESDAY AUGUST 26 -- “Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”Thank you, Rabbi Abraham Heschel.And Mary Oliver’s reminder,“it is a serious thingjust to be aliveon this fresh morningin the broken world”So. What if embracing the temporal…
Daily Dose (August 19 – 22)
TUESDAY AUGUST 19 -- Stories take care of us. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. (Thank you, Barry Lopez.)And yet. There are some…
Daily Dose (August 12 – 15)
TUESDAY AUGUST 12 -- “Creation of art and music is cathartic and reinvigorating. It can inspire action, collaboration and resistance… Music eases our minds during difficult times in our lives. It reminds us that we are a community. We are…
Daily Dose (August 5 – 8)
TUESDAY AUGUST 5 -- More than ever, I’m drawn to stories of everyday heroes, ambassadors for our collective soul. These stories are indispensable for wellbeing and an antidote to despair.Some stories are good for whatever ails us.The husband knew he…
Daily Dose (July 29 – Aug 1)
TUESDAY JULY 29 -- I can still hear Mr. Rogers’ voice, as if he were speaking directly to me through the TV screen, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would…
Daily Dose (July 22 – 25)
TUESDAY JULY 22 -- This week, we find hope in the human world of helping.And I told the story of anthropologist Eleanor Leacock, who spent a lot of time with the Cree Indians of northern Canada. She went on a…