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…
Invited to Dance
On NPR's This American Life, Ira Glass interviewed a young woman, a singer with a Riverdance troupe. She told how one day, the troupe collectively decided to purchase a batch of lottery tickets. The plan (buoyed by sheer conviction 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…
Let me sow Love
When violent shocks become a routine feature of daily life—intensified online in an already polarized, anxious and overstimulated society—I can feel powerless, and so, try to protect myself. I am so tempted to close my eyes, to shut down, and…
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…
You Matter
Have you ever heard of Buddy Ball? Beth Campbell started the program in 1994, in Bellevue, Washington. Because of his disabilities, Beth's son Stevie, age 7, was unable to play in the regular t-ball program. So, Beth started a baseball…
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…
Graciousness is real
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe…
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…
The Permission to See
"The barracks were full of them. The image was repeated over and over again. Butterflies. They were everywhere I looked. Some were crude. Others were quite detailed." In 1946 Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross visited the Maidenek concentration camp. The children's barracks…