Sourced from Google Years ago when I was a new immigrant, learning to live in America, we watched Antique Roadshow, a live TV series where experts offered to appraise family heirlooms or dusty, forgotten oddities discovered in attics and cellars. As the camera slowly...
Around the Coffee Table | Photo by Ryan Thurman As usual, last Saturday morning, our small team met in the kitchen, catching up, eating snacks, drinking coffee, seated around the low table. As best we can we are preparing for a major event, something way beyond our...
When you reach a certain age, the conversation with contemporaries often veers to bones and organs. In his latest email, a dear and famous friend of 50 years, also called George, describes his wonder in seeing again after cataract surgery… like new eyes And then he...
Shadows, A new memorial of deportation in Amsterdam | Artist Ram Katzir. Photograph from The New York Times. Shadows My eyes are pulled into a series of photos embedded in an article by Nina Siegel in The New York Times, titled, Photos That Helped to Document the...
My parents trod on these stones, on their way to Köln/Deutz railway station Walter and Ernst, Companions on my Journey The city is Köln, Germany, where my parents and I spent the last few months of our lives as a family of three. Walter Volmer is the retired Criminal...
Sourced from Google | Photographer Unknown That first Christmas in the British Midlands I tasted unusual delicacies and heard strange new words. It was 1939 and I was 7 years old, desperately trying to understand what was expected of me when the instruction manual...
Why was Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, a Shetl Jew, so preoccupied with Jesus on the cross? “White Crucifixion” by Marc Chagall | Circa 1938 | Sourced from Google Marc Chagall | Photo by Li Erben | Sourced from Google Chagall’s inspired use of color | Title unknown |...
An Eclectic Reading List Today began with a slow read of Matthew 24 and Jesus’ warning, See that no one leads you astray and Let not your love grow cold in a time of increased lawlessness. And then I thought about our present experience of lawlessness and opened...
Hyphen /ˈhīfən/ noun Definition: a symbol used to join two words together, or to show that a word has been divided into two parts at the end of one line and the beginning of the next. (Cambridge Dictionary) Amanda, a good friend, is studying Jewish/Christian relations...
Eifel, Germany This morning before breakfast, George and I watched George Verwer on Youtube. Watch George Verwer’s video about “A Garland For Ashes” He had alerted us that he would feature A Garland for Ashes in his weekly blog. And to anyone in the...
