This is titled 'Regrets of the Dying,' by Bronnie Ware.
Heard it this morning and was moved.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Water to Wine, Cheese to Mystic
"What I am asking for is really very ridiculous. Oh Lord, I am saying, at present I am a cheese, make me a mystic, immediately."
---Flannery O'Connor
---Flannery O'Connor
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Voices and Visions (iii): Every Single One
"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven."
--Baal Shem Tov
Artwork by Tom Geismar.
Thoughts by Erica Brown:
Light is expansive and inviting. It brings clarity, warmth, vision and truth. When we are troubled or confused, we say that we are in the dark. When we slip up morally, we find ourselves trapped in darkness. In darkness, we lose our way and feel smaller and less significant. But, as the Baal Shem Tov tells us, from every human being there rises a light.
His mystical observations on the power of light invite each of us to discover the light within and to grow it. We are a light when we harness our incredible capacity to shine. We are a light when we look into ourselves and discover our uniqueness. We are a light when we exert our goodness. And we bring more light into the world when we are ethical people and feel ourselves to be ambassadors of an ancient, majestic people.
--Baal Shem Tov
Artwork by Tom Geismar.
Thoughts by Erica Brown:
Light is expansive and inviting. It brings clarity, warmth, vision and truth. When we are troubled or confused, we say that we are in the dark. When we slip up morally, we find ourselves trapped in darkness. In darkness, we lose our way and feel smaller and less significant. But, as the Baal Shem Tov tells us, from every human being there rises a light.
His mystical observations on the power of light invite each of us to discover the light within and to grow it. We are a light when we harness our incredible capacity to shine. We are a light when we look into ourselves and discover our uniqueness. We are a light when we exert our goodness. And we bring more light into the world when we are ethical people and feel ourselves to be ambassadors of an ancient, majestic people.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Voices and Visions (ii)
Here's another from the wall:
More about this piece and quote here.
Objects break. Hearts break. Some things can be repaired, and others cannot. But, Rabbi Nachman (1772–1810) reminds us, in the same way that breaking is an inevitability, fixing is also an inevitability. We know the former is true; we don’t always believe the latter.
More about this piece and quote here.
Friday, September 13, 2013
My desk, the JCC wall, and beautiful words
Cleaning through piles of paper on my desk and came across a number of quotes I'd written down after seeing them paired with beautiful artwork and displayed on the wall of the JCC.
This is part of the Voices and Visions program, and I walked by it for weeks, after swim lessons with my girl, her pulling me forward and me wanting to ingest each message and see which ones could stick and which would fall away.
Here is one:
This is part of the Voices and Visions program, and I walked by it for weeks, after swim lessons with my girl, her pulling me forward and me wanting to ingest each message and see which ones could stick and which would fall away.
Here is one:
Friday, September 6, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
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