Type: Poem

“As the new moon of Adar II rises we give thanks for this double dose of delight…”

“I know You’re up there, /but I’ve been down here. / Do you see the things I see?”

“Your dancing words / ground me…”

“May we all drive well through sun and clouds, and whatever else God has in store– and may we all, soon and safely, arrive.”

“Prayer, the sacred blessing where all our limbs can be rewoven / returning us into our whole…”

“Soon, the glory of the divine will appear / so naturally, and so inconspicuously…”

“There is a time to make war, / there is a time to make peace. / In each soul both sing.” Listen to the tune hardest to hear.

This powerful poem takes us into Sarah’s inner world.

“We’ve escaped Chicago’s winter glad to take in Tucson Sun / as he paints the mountains / in unending displays of shapes…”

“And the darkness of evening becomes the light of Shabbat…”