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Omer 15: Dance in a Dark World
This year, I had the opportunity to be in a dance film that is now on exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York in Urban Stomp: Dreams and Defiance on…
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Omer 14: Flowering in a Frantic World
This spring, along with many other people, I am enraptured by the blooming trees and gardens along my paths and throughout the city. I have visited Wave Hill Gardens, the Heather Garden in…
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Omer 13: Preparation in a Panicking World
This season, for my communities and friends, feels like a new time for preparation to bring change and support each other in the upcoming years of difficulty. I certainly feel as though I…
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Omer 12: Listening in a Loud World
This erev Shabbos, I played clarinet for a service in Brooklyn. As is true many weeks, much of the music was played by ear, creating harmonies and chord structures to support singing through…
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Omer 11: Memory in a Moving World
Yesterday evening, I ran supertitles for a Yiddish Play written in 1944 about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (just a year and a half after the event), דער נס אין געטאָ (Der Nes in…
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Omer 10: Grieving in a Gracious World
During the past several years, many people have reconnected to grief: personal, communal, worldwide. Among the painful things happening to people, populations, and the planet, a grace has permeated many spaces that recognize…
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Omer 9: Confusion in a Confident World
Life can sometimes feel like a balance between leaning into what I don’t know and trusting my experience enough to act. Often, people present confidence while still figuring out new information, methods, connections.…
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Omer 8: Slowing Down in a Speeding World
As the week begins, I’ve contemplated all the times when slowness brings depth to thought, vision to surroundings, rootedness and understanding to situations. As spring weather blossoms in NYC, there are many moments…
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Omer 7: Blooming in a Brutal World
Today I went to Wave Hill Garden in Riverdale where the spring flowers are blooming, the Hudson River and Palisades twinkle to the west under the sunlight, and bees are just beginning to…
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Omer 6: Intention in an Isolated World
The counting of the omer requires intention, remembering each day that time is in between two festivals marking harvests, marking seasons. The act of counting the omer connects a community of people tracking…