Last week I attended a professional women’s networking meeting that left me feeling more openhearted than I’d ever imagined possible. I observed myself navigating the schmooze-fest with a hefty dollop… Read More
Category: Courage
Kaddish Symphony, or Why We Can’t Wait
It’s the smell of cigarettes, gin and sweat acrid smoke from incinerating bodies salt of blood and sweet perfume turned sour The sound of a tree branch creaking from the… Read More
Seeds of Truth
When your truth forsakes its shyness, when your fears surrender to your strengths, you will begin to experience that all existence is a teeming sea of infinite life. –Hafiz, from… Read More
Learning to Listen From the Heart
I just returned from co-leading a training for a group of almost 70 students, supervisors and program staff for a new Hillel campus leadership program called Ask Big Questions. It… Read More
How to Be Wise and Courageous
One of my favorite Buddhist teachers, Pema Chodron, tweeted this recently: "If you ask people whom you consider to be wise and courageous about their lives, you may find that… Read More