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Archive for the ‘Death/Loss/Grief’ Category
Aprendiendo otro idioma, volviendo a casa (Learning another language, coming home)
Posted in Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Language on June 25, 2019 | 4 Comments »
There should be no end
Posted in Dance, Death/Loss/Grief, Love, Uncategorized on May 4, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
‘Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch. – Yehuda HaLevi There should be no end to tears, you said, offering the whole box of tissue to the new widow who wanted an end to hers.
Knowing it’s the End
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Fear, Hebrew School, Mortality, The Shoah on February 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
On January 13, 2018, an employee of the Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency issued a ballistic missile alert. Thirty eight minutes later, a second message was sent, describing it as a “false alarm.” Here’s a modern day math problem: After launch, a missile travels 4600 miles. At an average speed of 306.67 miles per hour, […]
Yarzheit Light
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Prayer on January 8, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
-Jan 6, 2018 Today is the 19th of Tevet the moon wanes gibbous the indolent sun rouses a mere 8 hours and 37 minutes. It is the dead of winter which could be a metaphor except it is winter and you are still dead, Dad, no bud or blossom gathering nourishment to bloom forth […]
Twin Falls
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Mortality, Photos, Waterfall on September 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
We were an unlikely quartet alongside the Snoqualmie River’s South Fork the tall and lumbering Taiwanese student towering over the thin and lanky American teen the energetic dog pulling the 50-something suitor up the trail and me the other 50-something tracking literary allusions stopping for expansive breaths murmuring metta blessings closing my eyes to receive […]