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To Go By Music: Part Two
Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” A song in Ukrainian. Hallelujah: Trilingual Version [English, Hebrew, Arabic] – Nicole Raviv Hallelujah in 3 languages: English,Hebrew, and Arabic, in light of the October 7th Israel-Hamas war. This song is a dedicated prayer for peace for… Continue reading
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To Go By Music: Part One
This week I am doing something different. Rather than words, I am inviting you into my world of musical interest. I have eclectic taste. I hope you will enjoy the music and the short, well, mostly short videos. Diverse as… Continue reading
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Chanukkah and Advent: Dialogue and Hate in the Trumpian Age
Mixing Apples and oranges (or pomegranates). Readers may think I have been doing just that in these reflections on Advent and Chanukkah. Jews and Christians have distinct faiths and teachings. I firmly believe in ecumenical dialogue. Dialogue, to reach an… Continue reading
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A Poem
Walking from the BarnAt the pasture’s distant edge,Spines of twisted trees, branchesKnitting the waning gray lightfall sky.My breath vapors form cloudsIn the air smelling of snow.Crows, in curved flight, caw Their roosting hour notes,Rising as if released fromSheet music uplifted… Continue reading
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Advent and Chanukkah: Lights in the Darkness
A curtain of silence drapes the late autumn and first days of winter. There is a sense of expectation. In the solitude of quiet nights, I find hope and the desire for renewal and deepening of faith in the flickering… Continue reading
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A Poem; Memory and Loss
(For Diane and Judy) There is something I forgot;A name, though I still knowMost faces or perhaps a word.I misplace faces, names and wordsPronounced until they vanish, Disappearing in caverns…There are many empty, dark places.Do you remember that early SeptemberBy… Continue reading
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Advent
All nights become silent and holy,Laved in the candlelight of our prayers,As muted songs of lamentation are sung,Rising as incense in autumn nights’ air.In this place of our lonely exile,Anticipation rises again in our breastsFor a child, to be born… Continue reading
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Poem for Li Qingzhao
Cicadas noisily burst into songAnd whirl in their mating danceOn branches of jade-green.In a lonely courtyard I composeA poem of distant yearsTo possess a moment in time.My heart is grieved then lifted by A memory of you in a thin… Continue reading
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Veterans Have a Word to Say About the Constitution, Duty, and Who They Serve
The Military News this morning contained an article titled “Military Veterans Call Out Trump, Hegseth and Pentagon in New Video.” Rather than post the entire article written by Nick Mordowanec, I am providing a link to their short video. This… Continue reading
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