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A Poem a Day

I just read a poem or two. It’s a rainy day and it seemed like a good thing to do. It reminded me that poets exist. Many more than we will ever know. It reminded me that we might be

Micah Lapidus October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Daily Life, Poetry, Prayer Read more

We Come Full Circle

We Come Full Circle A circle is opened. Sitting in the circle: People of different faiths, backgrounds, experiences, colors, voices, faces, hopes, fears, loves, names. Singing: to punctuate the silence. Silence: to punctuate the song. Eyes closed: visions unfold. Eyes

Micah Lapidus July 20, 2018 Poetry, Prayer, Relationships Read more

Let Me Know it Fully

    Let me know it fully. A colleague said this to me today. During a webinar that he was facilitating. Let me know it fully. Not just any breath. But this breath. Not just any feeling of my fingers

Micah Lapidus November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 Daily Life, Poetry, Prayer Read more

Pause

  Between breathing in and breathing out. Between this sentence and the next. Between thought and expression. Between hearing and listening. Between doing and doing. Between being and being. Between now and now. Between is and was. Between is and

Micah Lapidus November 6, 2017 Buddhism, Daily Life, Poetry, Prayer Read more

Walk in Delight

  Beyond measure, I am blessed. In ways disguised and manifest. In ways I can appreciate and ways I cannot. In ways deserved but in more ways graced. In ways that touch my daily existence and ways that don’t. Beyond

Micah Lapidus November 2, 2017November 3, 2017 Daily Life, Lists, Nature, Poetry Read more

A Picture, a prayer, and a song

  May we turn towards one another, and not away May our offerings be offerings of peace May we give them freely and from great abundance May the places where we meet be transformed into havens of shalom If only

Micah Lapidus October 20, 2017 Hello Goodbye & Peace, Israel, Music, Poetry, Prayer Read more

An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness

An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness   I am connected   to this computer   to this couch   to the sounds of the white noise machines in my kids’ rooms being carried through the speaker of our video monitor  

Micah Lapidus October 2, 2017October 3, 2017 Buddhism, People, Poetry, Relationships Read more

Bless

between experience and meaning between thought and expression between intention and action between seeking and finding between wanting and receiving in that space between bless

Micah Lapidus September 18, 2017 Elul, Poetry Read more

Asking for a Friend

Asking for a Friend For permission & forgiveness compassion & judgment discretion & sharing warnings & recommendations teaching & learning seeing & believing witnessing & forgetting embracing & discarding approval & disdain sharing & keeping tears of all kinds tears

Micah Lapidus September 9, 2017 Elul, Poetry, Relationships Read more

everything is the same

  everything is the same nothing is the same   everything: same heart, mind, and soul same body, face, and eyes same family, job, and home same sun, moon, and stars   nothing is the same: not heart, mind, or

Micah Lapidus September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 Poetry Read more
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