Praying with Fringes 11/09/2015 – a Blessing of Revelation

דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה / Blessing of Revelation Our sense of inherent value is rooted in the body’s ability to care for itself and in the direct ways we can provide for our own physical needs. When making money becomes a substitute for foraging, gathering, hunting, planting, we lose important sources of power. The zucchini I buy … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 11/09/2015 – a Blessing of Revelation

Praying with Fringes 1/31/2014 – something tethered in us breaks free

Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension—though affected, certainly, by our actions. A world parallel to our own though overlapping. We call it 'Nature: only reluctantly admitting … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 1/31/2014 – something tethered in us breaks free