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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?”

The Point of a Compass

I left home before graduation and moved in with him when I was seventeen. My mother called the police and said he was “harboring a minor.” The police car picked me up at his apartment to take me home. I went back the next day. She also took my passport. I reported it as stolen, and he bought me a new one. We went to the courthouse on my 18th birthday and signed the marriage certificate. A month later, we were on a plane to Israel.

The first compasses did not always point north. Early compasses pointed east.

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”

The Lamppost

Aside from maps and clocks and compasses, I also love lampposts. A clock is time; the human obsession of how much of it is left before we die, how it won’t wait, the only thing we can’t buy.  A map is location or dislocation, finding your way or acknowledging you are lost, lost but lookingContinue reading “The Lamppost”

The Sun and I

the sun burns and tear drops fall from its rays the internal combustion that is the life of us all constantly destroys itself and draws energy from destruction and the contained calamity one of these days that beautiful star is gonna burn out one of these days he’s gonna implode and leave a big blackContinue reading “The Sun and I”