Parallel Universe
Apr 20th, 2014
Well. It was only a matter of time before I joined the pop blog culture; Life has been interesting, and I wanted to share broadly...
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Note to the Wall from a Fixer
Mar 21st, 2014As one who is historically a wall Myself - steadfast -brave -keeper and giver of confidence -cool yet porous- alive …and so shrapnel-scarred as others expect demand delude over –and- underestimate others and try to take shots over my head, pound me for the sins of themselves… I understand your name: Wailing.
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Dr. Toughlove or: How I Learned to Stop Over-Verbalizing and Love the Bomb
Jan 5th, 2014
The following mini-rant is not about regaining our senses of privacy in a self-absorbed digital age. It is not even about a spoiled generation taking back responsibility, disappointment, and control. It IS about reinstating our own core instincts, intelligences, and centers of vitality, and the interpersonal boundaries required to separate true creative power from a slow nuclear leak.
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Struggle at Pnuel
Nov 13th, 2013
What hurt most was the lack of recognition / when I bumped into myself last night; / I surfaced by the river / in no light, / and asked myself my name, / old fool that I am - - / till it hit me, by (of all things) / pulling at my leg.
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Development Town
Nov 2nd, 2013
Beit Shemesh is a centrally located small town that started as a backwater, graduated to developing suburbia, and, having inherited from exorbitantly priced Jerusalem both a strong middle class and a sizeable population of hard-line Ultra-Orthodox, is now figuring out how to keep the extravagant promises we all made to ourselves, and those that successive mayors made to land developers. Nucky Thompson and Arnold Rothstein have nothin’ on Daniel Vaknin and Moshe Abutbol.
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Almost There: Existential Edging
Sep 4th, 2013
It is almost the Jewish New Year, and I almost care. As the year begins, I believe the space of the almost is underrated, because wholeness, certainty, and serenity bore me to tears. I feel almost like this is a lazy approach, and almost like it is brave. I feel like there is a lot of energy in almost, and also a lot to mourn.
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Mother of Creation
Jul 3rd, 2013
Rome and Paris are deeply embarrassing cities for artists and writers who have abandoned their craft. Before I became the manager of creative processes in the service of selling a secure future to the Jewish People, I was elbow deep in the creation itself, often simply in the service of the process.
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The Jewish Bookshelf Goes to Knesset
Feb 16th, 2013Back when I was working as a journalist, I became interested in the growing study of Jewish heritage texts by avante-garde secular Israelis.
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Little Boxes
Jan 10th, 2013
When a heavy box of old junk that another has packed and stored badly *literally* falls out of the pre-fab suburban ceiling and breaks open on the ONE Day out of *hundreds* that YOU happen to be home, and THE OWNER/ PACKER / STORER happens to not be….What is the symbolism there?
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The Social Well
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