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Unboxing Challenge — Day 9: Reading Tarot
I was 16 when I bought my first deck of cards. I don’t even know where to begin talking about how investing time in learning to read cards has enriched my life. And my own …
gratitude
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 5: Readers
Back in 2011, various people were telling me that aspiring writers need an online presence and that Tumblr was the way to go. I started off just posting inspirational quotes or other reblogs, with …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 4: Memory
I just spent this afternoon, for the first time in nearly three years, in one of my old bedrooms, on my old bed, both of which have belonged to a succession of someone-elses over time, yet …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 3: Living in Berlin
Wrote this a few mornings ago, but it’s a suitable follow-up to yesterday’s neighborhood-inspired post. This one, now, is about why I love this city on an even broader and deeper level. Frankly, what Berlin …
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Introducing the Unboxing Challenge!
Ready to Unbox Yourself? “Whoever the essence of us is — we are born, we are all individual, we are all unique, and we are supposed to be that exact person. We’re not supposed to …
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Unboxing Challenge: Unbox Your Divine Gifts — A Meditation
“The universe is prodigal in its support. We are miserly in what we accept. All gift horses are looked in the mouth and usually returned to sender. We say we are scared by failure, …
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Reflections from Auschwitz: Part 1
When I left Auschwitz on Thursday, I was desperate to be clean. At the camp, a sporadic wind whipped the dust so hard that it stung against my legs and my face and caught in …