My Father’s Voice
by Richard Ehrlich – Long Beach, NY
Around eleven years ago, when I first started saying kaddish for my father using his own tefillin, an old shule friend of his noticed that the head part didn’t quite fit; the leather was too loose, and he adjusted it for me right there in the sanctuary. But it wasn’t only the size of my […]
A Father, A Daughter, A Dream
by Patricia Bono – Scottsdale, AZ
It was a hot summer day and I had just finished riding my horse, bathing him, and putting him back in his stall. I went into the bathroom and looked in the small mirror over the sink. The face that stared back at me was covered with sweat and sooty grime. Time seemed to stand […]
Awakening in Nature to Our Interconnectedness
by Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD
When I was not yet old enough for kindergarten, I would often leave behind my baby brother, who was still in cloth diapers and in need of my mother’s watchful eye, and wander off by myself to explore the town and countryside near my home in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Neither of my parents realized that […]
