Have you ever played Mad Libs? If so, you know just how important grammar and semantics are to the art of storytelling. You also realize just how important words and context are to communication and understanding. I have my first post as part of the UU Collective on Patheos today…
Within each of us, I think, whether we acknowledge it or not, is a secret hidden corner. It’s that place that we enter when life is floating along on a soft current and are able to move with it on auto-pilot. Like an empty park bench in a quiet…
As I have written before, I am not a patient person. It takes a lot of practice, a lot of trying and failing and trying again, a lot of pep talks and prayer to remind myself to slow down, to not be in such a rush, to be patient with…
I am happy to feature the writing of Samantha Brinn Merel today. She is one of my favorite writers, so I was thrilled when she agreed to guest post to share some of her Shabbos memories. ****************** It is one of my very first memories. Friday afternoon. The sun is…
“Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t drive a car, I don’t f***ing ride in a car, I don’t handle money, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don’t f***ing roll!” – Walter Sobchak (John Goodman)…
“Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea.” – Max Lucado Lately I have been feeling the full weight of the all the world’s beauty and cruelty, destruction and rebirth, joy and agony and I think my might heart might burst from the weight of…