July 2014 – Shoshana Sarah

The Hardest Part Of Traveling No One Talks About

Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury

“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” ~ Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death “Fame in theContinue reading “Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury”

Because the Poets are Healers

This is just a piece of what’s going on in the world. 276 Nigerian girls kidnapped, three Israeli boys kidnapped and murdered, a Palestinian boy kidnapped and murdered, burned alive. I live in Jerusalem, so the latter is more poignant; there has been rioting, violence,Continue reading “Because the Poets are Healers”