It is hard to imagine a world in which one did not constantly encounter images created by Vincent Van Gogh. Today one does not need to make an effort to go to a museum to see them.… Read More

If we read deeply enough, if we live deeply enough, what looks like an ending becomes an opening…and we can be the author.… Read More

Breaking continuity can sometimes be the best way to maintain it.… Read More

Moments of fracture contain within them the possibility of life reconstructed and renewed.… Read More

We can enrobe words with different ones (metaphors). We can enrobe ourselves in different personas. These open up different possibilities, new ways of seeing what we thought we knew.… Read More

We weep for the brokenness in our world. Our refusal to be comforted is our insistence that we can create a better, more just future.
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Torah guides us on a journey that is both internally and externally focused. The world is ever in danger. And spiritually composed beings can bring wholeness to it.
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This week many of us will sit around a table of thanksgiving with family and friends. It is an opportunity to reflect on a world that is other than we might wish it to be and to imagine the possibilities nurtured by hope.… Read More

A compassionate curiosity about what is missing, unvoiced, or undeveloped in one’s story is one of the sacred practices encouraged by Torah.… Read More

The most important guests in our lives may not be those we invite but those, both people and experiences, that show up unexpectedly.… Read More