Winter Is the Best Time David Budbill Winter is the best time to find out who you are. Quiet, contemplation time, away from the rushing world, cold time, dark time, holed-up pulled-in time and space to see that inner landscape, that place hidden and within. "Winter Is the Best Time" by David Budbill, from While … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 01/23/2014 – Winter is the best time
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Praying with Fringes 1/15/2014 – it could almost be answer
Morning Song Marcia F. Brown Here, I place a blue glazed cup where the wood is slightly whitened. Here, I lay down two bright spoons, our breakfast saucers, napkins white and smooth as milk. I am stirring at the sink, I am stirring the amount of dew you can gather in two hands, folding it … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 1/15/2014 – it could almost be answer
Praying with Fringes 12/10/2013 – invisible bears burrowed into dreams
from Almanac Alicia Ostriker How can we speak simply of winter light yesterday glitter glazed every twig in sight the universe shone like knives today the grey-lit overnight snow makes everything peaceful, even ourselves big quilts of it convert our neighbor’s cars into a tender and humble row of ecclesiastical domes or invisible bears burrowed … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 12/10/2013 – invisible bears burrowed into dreams
Praying with Fringes 11/27/2013 – This is what life does
Starfish Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 11/27/2013 – This is what life does
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah 