One Word Sermon: Sit
The most important lesson
The most important lesson I want to teach my students is the very same lesson I am trying to teach myself: let go of the past, let go of the future, be in the present. Be in: notice, acknowledge, appreciate,
A wonderful weekend and afternoon of learning
This Shabbat I had the honor of serving as a scholar-in-residence for the American Hebrew Academy and Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, NC. I was with the AHA community for Shabbat and had a few hours to engage with the religious
In praise of the qualitative
April’s #BlogaMonth topic,”How do you internally measure success (beyond that of test scores)?” took me back to my days as an Ed.D. student working on my doctoral research. During those weeks, months (and years), my natural tendency toward qualitative rather
winter blossoms
I’ve often wondered how it is that some plants bloom in the winter. When all the rest of the world is curling up for a long sleep. When I find myself driving to and from work in total darkness.
Silent Heads
What do you see in this photograph? What feelings do the styrofoam faces and busts evoke? What associations come to mind? If they could speak, what would they say?
Minivan Heroics
Driving down a narrow street in Grant Park on an insanely crowded and unusually warm late October Day. Twice having to cautiously navigate between two parked cars that could have resulted in my hitting either one through the slightest
Live Deeply
I’m inspired once again by Thich Nhat Hahn’s writings in “Teachings on Love”: Each moment of our lives, each moment that is given to us to live, we have to live very deeply. If you are capable of living deeply
Yom Yerushalayim Recollection
I love Jerusalem. I fell in love with Jerusalem when I lived there as a rabbinical student. I fell in love with Loren Filson Lapidus in Jerusalem that same year. Like many people that have lived in Jerusalem, I’ve