Downpour
“Rain clouds mass above, / so we race towards rows of stiff backed chairs…”
Grief sneaks up on you
“Grief sneaks up on you / It taps you on your shoulder…”
A Kavanah for the Hebrew Month of Av כַּוָּנָה לְחֹדֶשׁ אָב
“Let Av hold what hurts. / Let it draw us near.”
We Are So Tired
“There is Holy Wholeness / There is True Connection”
A Prayer For Librarians
“Because the first thing dictators do / Is ban books, history, music, science, art and journalism…”
Holy Wholeness
“Call that kiss, PEACE. / Call the circle, SHALOM.”
Unetanah Tokef: Confronting Collective Grief
The terrible allusions to death in Unetanah Tokef I would imagine for many of us are just that– allusions– imagined examples of God’s awesomeness relative to the scale of […]
Chosen Family Ketubah/Brit Akhim/Akhot/Mishpakha
ברית אחים/אחוט/משפחה Chosen family-making has been so core to queer and trans communities, offering us ways to create lasting bonds and to nurture the expansive intimacies we create with each […]
Prayer for Country and Israel in a Time of Distress
RIBONO SHEL OLAM, G-d of this Place, Asher Byadekha nefesh kol hai v’ruakh kol basar ishah May You help us find within ourselves, the gift of Your Shabbat, a […]
Grief – A Prayer From a Meditation on Psalm 6
“God who weeps with us all, /
hold my aching heart…”
