Creation of Stained Glass
The first stained glass was sunlight bright shining through the trees, broad flat overlapped hot petals and sour leaves. The demarkation of light and shadow made lines as crisp as lead but fluid and...
View ArticleShavuot 5771 – Strangers in Beit Lechem
[burial place of the matriarch Rachel] The very first thing to exist Was a spark of kindness, an impulse to give Unfettered generosity, Chesed shebeChesed So pure and unadulterated, when it manifested...
View ArticleIn Someone’s Arms
They put him in my arms, A scary tiny little fellow. Doctors mended his heart just after he was born. Mine can’t be fixed that way. They put him in my arms. The grandparents want this. His mother knows...
View ArticleCharismata
I now understand why older adults forsook the breast for darker meat during family gatherings. When I was too young to know any better I believed it was kindness, a certain type of sacrifice bordering...
View ArticleNeo-Shavuot
Beside me came a Whisper that I thought was sin, It spoke to me, I listened not, it spoke still more and more, The fire of the Law was given then. It answered all my questions before I could begin,...
View ArticleWe’d Been Evicted
We’d been evicted from Eden, and we were looking for any reason To get back in that garden But the warden, he’d grant us no pardon. We thought about breaking in, But the cherubim said, “Don’t you even...
View ArticleTruth Tastes Like Freedom
I am a preacher, A teacher, A reacher for syllables And symbols. And since I make my living with my words I want my words to make a difference In the living of peoples’ lives. I want ‘em to break out...
View ArticleOn With The Show
I’m a spoken-word noob and I feel like a boob ‘cause some vids on Youtube are the only thing I’ve seen of this phenomenon. So I’m damn sure I don’t know what’s goin’ on. And I strongly suspect that...
View ArticleTsunami Stones
When the March 11, 2011 tsunami devastated Japan, the media sought to convey the extent of the otherwise unimaginable destruction through a collection of powerful images. We, in turn, gathered at...
View ArticleBest thing I saw on the Internet this week (Sept 6)
These are the best things I’ve seen on the internet this week (no promises they were written the week featured). This regular Friday installment will be full of the awesome theological, creative,...
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