by Hanna Miley | Jul 18, 2024 | Blog
Photo by Marco Montalti | Shutterstock The Art of Healing Last month, Hannah Dailey came to our home. She was in Phoenix to interview local Holocaust survivors for the National World War 2 Museum in New Orleans. I looked up from my low chair angled before the packed... by Hanna Miley | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog
Shocked, I looked closer, Yes, they are Stolpersteine, brass bricks, embedded in the pavement before former homes of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Yes, they are desecrated with an old trope, Juden sind Täter (Jews are Perpetrators). Yes, this is June 2024.... by Hanna Miley | Jun 12, 2024 | Blog
About twenty years ago, I remember driving on narrow, undulating roads, through verdant countryside. We were in the Eifel, Germany, it was early afternoon and we were on the way to Kraftwerk Heimbach, the electric power station built in Jugendstil in 1905. A... by Hanna Miley | May 31, 2024 | Blog
I remember sitting on a low pouffe opposite my English “auntie” in her arm chair, holding my arms wide as she unraveled on old jumper, feeding the wool thread in a loop around my outstretched hands and then slowly rhythmically winding the reclaimed thread into a... by Hanna Miley | Apr 10, 2024 | Blog
Narrow gauge track to Chelmno | Photo by Global Story Films Three Journeys to Poland You could say they were Pilgrimages to the edges of my world. Each of the three journey ended at the place of death and the desecration of my parents’ bodies. On May 2, 2010 ten of us... by Hanna Miley | Mar 16, 2024 | Blog
Art by Laura Nathan A Metaphor for Love and Loss This morning Laura Nathan posted two photographs on Instagram with a meditation on the metaphors she had discovered while reading A Garland for Ashes. I have stitched and torn apart and restitched and torn apart this... by Hanna Miley | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog
How does it compare with a New York Bagel? I found the answer to my questions on the rooftop at the Global Ambassador Hotel, Camelback Road, here in Phoenix, on a warm and sunny February day. George and I have celebrated over 50 of my birthdays together and it takes ... by Hanna Miley | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash What am I doing paying tribute to Instagram that troublesome, frustrating social media platform? Sometimes I wonder about the hours I’ve wasted scrolling through cats, dogs, selfies, checking likes. And then I remember opening a... by Hanna Miley | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog
December fig leaf fallen on winter grass Can a clergyman poet, noted for the purity and effectiveness of his choice of words (britannica.com) who died 390 years ago have anything to say at this dark year’s ending? Yesterday, I savored a verse from George Herbert’s... by Hanna Miley | Dec 12, 2023 | Blog
At the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center | Photo: by Janie Dailey I love to trace the beginning of things. In the beginning… Genesis 1 In the beginning… John 1 On a micro level, how did George, Micah, Janie and I happen to be at the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage...
