Wrapping tefillin on a nursery log

large log with a tree growing from it

Western hemlock’s thick roots drape the sides of a redcedar nursery log like tefillin straps, wrapping its substrate seven times. Love, severity, compassion, perseverance, compromise, connection, receptivity. And when the […]

Mikveh Hamayim

dark water with bubbles of light

“12 months of mourning, / Travelling, conjoined, / On our continuing / Separate ways.”

Iyar

woman in profile standing on sand dune in the desert

“If we remember the daily count / will new paths open in the heavens?”

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