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
“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?
✧✧✧ As I pack up to leave after my workout, someone asks me, “Hey, Rabbi, how are things going?” I’m not one for small talk. Especially after being called by my title. “Well,” I reply. “I’m sad.” “Why?” “I’m thinking about the girls who went to school in the morning in Minab, Iran—over a hundred of them—killed by a bomb.”
✧✧✧ To my dearest pen pal, Habbakuk: First, let me say, no one remembers the prophets who did not deliver on the goods. Your predictions came true. And, 2500+ years later, you are still remembered. Do you remember Lenny, that guy? Kept going around Judea telling people “the goats will lay down in green pastures,” and, then, remember? It started
✧✧✧ I am a rabbi. I have a Masters Degree in Hebrew letters and a Doctorate of Divinity, and I am ordained as a rabbi. I have each credential framed, in my office, just behind where I sit. They’re not individually affixed to the wall—they lean against one another in a stack. I like the
