Topic Tags: mortality

Latest Rituals

L’Dor V’Dor

“How do we know what will outlive us? / We all want to be remembered our lives to count for something…”

ancestors, family, grief, mortality, stories

A starry night sky with a cosmic blend of blue and purple nebulae.

Remembering a Sibling for Mourner’s Kaddish or Yizkor

“The death of a sibling too is unique. It ignites our own vivid / sense of mortality.”

family, grief, kaddish, loss, mortality, sibling

two brothers, one a child and one a toddler, hold hands and walk by a pond

Standing Stone

“The stone, once mud at the bottom of the ocean / pressed into rock by time, / will outlast me.”

mortality, nature, spirituality

large rock jutting into the water. A person stands on the rock's edge looking out into a bright, cloudy horizon

A Prayer for the Hopeless

Let me remember my breath on the wind as / Fragile / Fleeting / Precious

ancestors, mortality, resilience

Artwork of two women as shadows facing each other

Divine Breath

“I too am living my autumn…”

autumn, God, mortality

a tree with orange leaves

High Holiday Meditation on the 47th Anniversary of My Father’s Death

“When I feel most broken / pulled apart / when every door unhinged / is opened / but feels closed”

memory, mortality, unetaneh tokef, yizkor

abstract image of wire shapes filled with prismed bubbles