Voltaire’s band

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LIFE AIN’T FOR COWARDS.

GRIEF, LOSS, TRAUMAS AND
TRAGEDIES.
DISAPPOINTMENT AND ANGST.

SCAB OVER AND NOT FEEL?
OR
PICKED AT AND BLOODY?

ME? I CHOOSE

VOLTAIRE’S LIFEBOAT
VOLUNTARY BAND.

“COMPTEZ QUE LE MONDE EST UN GRAND NAUFRAGE, ET QUE LA DEVISE DES HOMMES EST, SAUVE QUI PEUT,” HE WROTE.

LIFE IS A SHIPWRECK,
SAVE YOURSELF IF YOU CAN.
DO NOT FORGET TO SING IN THE LIFEBOATS.

WHILE WE MOURN OUR UTOPIAN DREAMS,
I’VE SIGNED-UP TO PLAY FRENCH HORN.

NEVER PLAYED BEFORE.

YOU?

 

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What We Pass Down

“I have the honor of sitting with the Rabbi,” Martin says as I find my seat at the reception to celebrate his granddaughter’s Bat Mitzvah. At times like this, I’m not just Brian. I’m Rabbi Brian. A stand-in for God, Judaism, and all religious persons they’ve met in the past. ✧ ✧ ✧ “We pass the Torah from generation to

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See Me.

Shoes.Shoes.Shoes.  The long glass wall separates me from a display of more than 100,000 shoes at Auschwitz-Birkenau.  Men’s shoes and women’s shoes and children’s shoes and baby shoes.  Everyday shoes and work shoes and formal shoes and boots and sandals and slippers and high-heeled shoes and orthopedic shoes.  Woven sandals and wooden-soled shoes and leather shoes and cloth shoes.  Shoes

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Last Tuesday / This Tuesday

Last Tuesday. I’m sitting in an Adirondack chair, my feet resting on a well-weathered log here in Sisters, Oregon. It’s my family’s annual week-long vacation at the same beautiful house we’ve rented for the past four summers. My favorite spot. Just above the little creek. Most of my worries are 153 miles away. ✧✧✧ This Tuesday. I’m sitting in my

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77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter