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Always a Beginning
New Year's is my favorite holiday. It's a day to do rituals, count blessings, and set intentions. Here's a favorite poem for today.
Nothing Is Ever Lost
Always there is a beginning —
a n…
Loving Friends with Alzheimer’s
As a process theologian I believe in the primacy of moments. Yes, we live our lives year to year, week to week, day to day. But most deeply, I believe, we live from moment to moment.
I learned th…
Can You Ever Truly Know Who You Are?
By Mac Fabens
Artwork by: Kael Banks, age 18
I have a strong dislike for the phrase “know who you are,” both because it is used so often and because I think it has a completely different me…
A Mini-Map of My Hands
You can tell quite a bit about a person's life and personality by looking at their hands. I have often thought but never said aloud that my hands are one of my best features. When we were living in …
Nobody Wears Tefillin on the Weekend
By Adina Gerwin
On one of the first crisp fall mornings of seventh grade, as I walked into prayer at my Jewish Day School, I noticed strange leather boxes hanging off my friend's arm.
The Many Sides to Regret
In a snappy and thought-provoking article in the New Republic, Judith Shulevitz, the magazine's science editor, points to the now familiar parade of politicians, business figures, and celebrities ma…
In Both Past and Present
Artwork by: Iryna Tsisaruk, age 15
Written by: Vincent Chang and Amy Bai
The smell of the sandalwood was overbearing.
To Live or to Plan?
By Iman Monnoo
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. “
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society
The Absence Beneath My Skis
By Olivia Bailey in the KidSpirit Resilience issue.
"It’s no use to go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The entranc…