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Beloved reader, As has become a 2024 tradition, the first Monday of the month is written as a journal entry. Me directly addressing you. No story of my children and the dishwasher with some wisdom in it this week. What follows is a collection of 12 Rabbi Brian Wisdom Biscuits—spiritualigious quips and thoughts. Each of

Beloved, I am writing these very words you are currently reading in the past, with regard to time, from when you are reading them. It’s like time-travel. Kinda. Where I am, it’s December 22.   (You can actually see these words on the screen in the photo, above.) I’m sitting in my living room, in the

My son, age 12, walked me face-first into a telephone pole. I forgave him. This is a story about forgiveness, acceptance, and understanding. The family is walking, with our friend Betsy, towards a pizza dinner. Jane and Betsy are chatting and I’m goofing with the kids. I put Emmett’s 12-year-old head under my left hand

  _08/30/1998_ Dear Diary, I met the remarkable Shauna Jean Malone today. And she is remarkable. I can even prove it, Dear Diary? I’m remarking upon her right now, am I not? Anyhow, today is her birthday. We were introduced at the Wren Dormitory corner of the uphill quad. The residential assistants had assembled all

Two Thankfully-Ruined Gratitude Practices   ***   She ruined two gratitude practices.Two. One person.She ruined two gratitude practices I had enjoyed and heretofore had swore by. I don’t really blame Sara-Jean, a former mentee of mine since 1996—now nearly 40, mother of three, PhD in education, and professor at USC. Truthfully, I blame her cancer,

# Anti-racism *** If you’ve missed the recent _ROTB Saturday spiritualigious service gatherings_, we’ve been talking a bit about being an anti-racist. Catch up by reading this. *** Jiddu Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” *** Impact and intent are different. Your understanding of my

It is Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the Jewish years.  I’m in my backyard. In a tent.  Fasting.  Contemplating. It’s my practice.   The dogs tell me and repeat: “Clear and present danger at the front door. Clear and present danger at the front door.”    I unzip, go through the house, and

Name: Email:   The phrase “Time heals all wounds” is attributed to the Greek poet Menander (300 BCE). He was half right.  Time is a component of healing.  But healing does not happen with time alone. Healing requires both time and attention.  *** Something traumatic recently happened to me in Harmony, North Carolina. And, because

My friend.   I often refer to the person or people with whom I’m talking as *my friend* or “my friends.”   I like that it proposes the relationship I desire to have.   I see truth in the saccharine phrase attributed to both poets Guest and Yeats, “There are no strangers here. Only friends