I spent yesterday, October 7th, at the YWCA Racial Justice Summit. It didn’t turn out to be much about Gaza, to my relief, since my feelings about that are pretty complicated. (I’ve appreciated reading Starhawk’s recent posts on it). The plenary speaker, Andrea Ritchie, helped connect the dots between abolition and everything from microaggressions to […]
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My recent writing life has been a combination of working hard on revisions to my novel (yes, still the same one I started in 2018!) and practicing a poetry form called the pantoum. On the last day of my July contemplative writing retreat I told my teacher Miriam Hall that my morning pages practice had
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Wildflower meadow Makes me long to learn to paint Pale purple clouds Golden sprays Lacy white froth Infinite shades of green But what color to use For the embellishment of wrensong?
I recently wrote a personal “book review” as part of my outreach efforts for my congregation’s April 24-25 Shabbaton with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone. I said: When I was growing up, my parents’ marriage was fraught, in part because of their polar opposite relationships to fear. My mother was afraid of everything, it seemed, from germs,
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I love reading fiction, often for escape. Cozy fantasy, like TJ Klune or Travis Baldree. I don’t love reading grim fiction, or non-fiction, and don’t do a whole lot of it, but sometimes I’m motivated by wanting to understand the world better. Last year, for instance, I read Too Much and Never Enough : How
