Alchemy of Teshuvah
“May my words be embodied. / May my life be lived as prayer.”
Sukkot in a western redcedar
“…I wish to take a redcedar frond, salal and spirea, and pacific crab apple and bring them together…”
Shabbat Meditation on the Juan de Fuca
“The next day, returning from a hike Shabbat afternoon, the time of ra’ava d’ra’avin, desire of all desires, a tune came to me, the Juan the Fuca nigun.”
Omer Nidra
Guided meditation for the Omer
Therefore
An interpretive reading of the Ten Commandments
Connection with All
“A cosmos of vibrations / Held gently within / This boundary / That is me.”
Seder Plate
“Pesakh’s blue plate, / a strange / and yet familiar / gathering of ingredients”
Pittsburgh: A Trial Begins
“Four and a half years have passed / Much of the world seems to have / forgotten / But we never will”
Prayer for One Entering Natural Organic Reduction
Prayer for transferring a deceased body for the process of “natural organic reduction,” also known as “human composting”
Finding My Voice as a Black Jew
“Can I speak to the people the way I speak to You?”
