Israel and the 10 Commandments~~~ written for a post-Shavuot action with IfNotNow ~~~ Israel and the 10 Commandments As Israel bombs Gaza, and rains death upon the...
Earth Day KaddishEarth Day Kaddish for Chochmat HaLev 4th Fridays, Iyar 11/12 5781 ~~~ Yitgadal v’yitkadash shmei raba: Huge and holy may the great name...
change like it's lovechange like it's love there is no permanence easy to lean into i talked to my best friend yesterday about how it feels to love to trust...
loving counts & the torah of wildernessofferred at Bend The Arc's post election meeting, 11/5, 19 Heshvan 5781 ~~~ Hey yall, early good shabbes I'm Binya, an organizer in the...
dust and ashwe are but dust and ash we are but souls breathed into a body we are but divine breath, strained through a mask we are but dust and ash...
every wispjust. remember. there is only one air. no here, nor there when it comes to our breath in december it catches our chest in may, it might...
to shabbes, and my lovelike a perfect pearl in the smallest jewelry box you hold me so close i barely know i'm being held i rock side to side in your endless...
teaching your creatorwhy do we live and why do we die? because those are the two things god cannot do because limits and bounds, and bodies and death are...
this is a true storyi was sitting at my window, working on some talmud, when a barefooted blue-haired butch walked onto the street in front of our house, saw...
triumphant glowhavdallah tonight at the albany bulb was a contest of lights to the west, as the sky sunk into its foggy orange sleep the hills of marin...
the other sidethey used to light them up, two-by-two, for the honor of the day each witch like a shabbes candlestick with warped glee in the...
full bloomshe took her sweet time two years of pot-into-sink 1-minute-running-water back-to-the-windowsill-shelf wipe-down-the-spill she waited...
shabbes tamed meshabbes didn't come to me like a queen this week she came like a wall she came like a thick slab of mud, or a defensive line-backer like...
algae-bloom insidesinside im all this kaleidoscope of colors inside theres an algae-bloom ocean, rolling every few seconds, red and green waves, against my...
look at melook at me not at my image not at my pixels not at the screen but at me pay attention not to the rectangle sliding in from the top...
last night i heard two people harmonizing on zoomlast night i heard two people harmonizing on zoom they were quarantined together, and sharing a song, at an evening of song-sharing and...
a heart in the two-step tideit's the voyage, gorgeous it's letting the salt water lift your back, the sun bake your belly, it's ending up somewhere far-off course watch
until there isn'tguard each moment like a jealous secret every afternoon breeze every golden ray of sun heap it up like a dragon's lair and plop...
there are daysthere are days where you get given sunshine there are days where you get given goodfood these are miracles these are miracles these are...
behind the fogwho knows what she does behind the fog it starts just around san francisco muffling skyscrapers, gathering strength, resting patient,...
