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Practicing Kindness to Overcome Despair

Despair has become my unwelcome visitor.  Every time I read about the deteriorating conditions of life in Gaza my stomach churns. Tears come easily. This weekend I took myself to task, realizing I better come up with a strategy ASAP [...]

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Writing A Eulogy And Finding A Poem

GUEST POST by JANE SESKIN I was about to cross the street when I looked to the right and saw my friend riding toward me. I knew it was Ann from her distinctive red bicycle helmet. She pulled over to the curb. We caught up on personal news and the state of the world.  I left the encounter smiling. She was an energetic woman in her late 60’s [...]

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Missing Hearts

How is it possible for the world to ignore babies being murdered every day in Gaza, while those babies who aren’t killed are dying from starvation?  How is possible to ignore a Palestinian father who leaves home for a loaf of bread only to return to find his family was murdered in his absence? How is it possible for Israeli soldiers to [...]

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It’s Not Me, It’s Us

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN Life-changing wisdom can come to us by surprise. I worked with the novelist and New Yorker editor Writer William Maxwell in his last decade.  After he had died, I read that he had brought his fiancée Emmy to meet his father in 1945.  His father, a somber man, was delighted, and advised his son, “If you [...]

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Emotions Are Not Enough

GUEST POST by JANET WEIL In south Gaza, in one of many online videos I have watched, a Palestinian grandmother cooked stew over a small open fire – outdoors, because her home had been bombed by the Israeli military. She showed her granddaughter how to make pita bread, talking to her gently all the time. Another short video showed a moment [...]

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My Picks for Winter Reads: 2024

Growing up pre-internet meant books in hard covers were my primary source for literature and knowledge about the world at large. From the time I was nine years old and allowed to visit our local public library on my own, I became acquainted with the magic bestowed by rows and rows of books in one place, just waiting for me to pick one of them. [...]

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An Unfulfilled Passion for Fashion

GUEST POST by CATHIE WHITTENBURG The minute the dress code was done away with at school my fashion immediately became hippie casual. It’s basically stayed that way over the last fifty plus years. And while I have moved on from work boots and overalls, I still cling to comfort with the occasional splash of color. But here’s the thing, I [...]

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Poetry: A Balm for Troubled Times

For poems are not words after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, and sometimes as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. —Mary Oliver To paraphrase Oliver, poetry isn’t just an art form, but a powerful medicine.  Poems are a reminder when we are hurting that there is beauty in the world, and when we [...]

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Aging Like A Wise Woman

Over coffee, a friend suggested that I write a blog offering guidelines for meaningful aging.  This week I’m taking her suggestion to heart. Here’s what I came up with: Honor Your Failures Reframe your “failures” as risks you took where you stuck your neck out.  Examine them for the lessons they presented and move on where you promise [...]

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