I had such a lovely afternoon today chatting with another mother. Our children played together while we talked,over delicious iced water, about our families, migrant issues, refugees and childhood memories . L is two years younger than I am, and earned simultaneous degrees in law and chemistry , did education work with Aboriginal peoples, [...]
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Disagreeing with K
I have a bone to pick with Kierkegaard. It has to do with the kind of risk that K ascribed to Abraham, as he stood with his knife over his son on Mount Moriah. K sees Abraham’s choice as a “leap of faith”- a leap that transcends ethics, which to K was a [...]
On writing behind walls
Not long ago, a writer came up to me and fervently said that experience was necessary in order to write well. By experience, she meant traveling and seeing places, interviewing people and spending days among communities whose lives are different from ours. I look at the homeliness of my existence and wonder if this is [...]
New Year
This morning, our family had our first family ‘queit time’ for the new year. We talked about the good things that happened in the year that just went by, and the not-so-good things that took place. In between trying to get our 5 year old to contribute instead of taking off to do her own [...]
Friends
As I get ready for my weekly housecleaning routine, my heart is filled with thanks for good friends . Lately, I’ve come to realize an obvious truth: the company of a real friend floods an entire room with treasures, adventures and words of life. Who needs a crowd of hangers-on when you’ve got these gems [...]
Wisdom and SALT
It’s going to be October next week and I am panicking! Actually, I should be thankful. The surgery went well and my overcrowded mouth is freed of two monstrous wisdom teeth. What I feared would happen didn’t : numbness of the tongue, paralysis of the face, hallucinations,etc. None at all. Instead, there has been this [...]
