Photo: Atara Katz
In every day
There’s room for
Gentle lectures
About living.
No scolding.
No critic.
Just a voice
To give
Some space,
A softened claim
To being.
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A Claim To Being
Month: February 2018
Chasing Life
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
For all the little ones in my life: Right here, nearby, quite far; right now or not but in my heart you always are … For all of you who chase life (and sometimes Central Park pigeons), and grab hold of every moment’s possibility with two tenacious hands:
You teach me lots more than I ever could teach you.
You are each life, exemplified.
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Conjure Hope
Photo: Ilya Rashap
Conjure hope
From odd bits
Of despair.
Recall the magic
Of compassion
Summoned from thin air.
Remember how small light
Brightens
Everywhere.
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Mnemonically Challenged
Photo: teachingmomster.com
“I failed the test,” she sighed and let her book bag slump to the floor.
“What test, and I’m so sorry.” I responded.
“Social studies. History stuff. I studied so hard!” She plunked herself into the chair. Dejection personified. “Who put all those stupid names and dates in there, anyway?”
“Names and dates can be really difficult to remember,” I noted. “I find it helpful to connect them with the story of what happened, or with something else to remind of what the name or date relate to.”
“Yeah, well,” her eyes rose to meet mine, accusatory at my not understanding she just needed me to let her vent. “But you are not mnemonically challenged!”
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High Ground
Photo: Ofir Asif
When begrimed, muddied waters
Swirl blurred currents of lies
It’s top time to insist
On maintaining
High
Ground.
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Life, Simplified.
Photo: King College, London
“It’s not hard,” she said. “Here, I’ll show you.”
“You make a circle …” she demonstrated. “Then you make eyes and mouth and little bit of hair and hands and legs. See?”
She held the drawing up to show me. Lines for arms and legs sprouted out of the crooked circle ‘head,’ topped by a few smaller lines of a sparse mohawk.
“Then,” she planted the paper back on the table, “you go to the hospital and the doctor makes magic and it’s a baby.”
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Tender Tending
Photo: Amitai Asif
Even in the frozen ground
Small wonders sleep
Ensconced
Awaiting
Tender tending.
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Still Mystified
Photo: Amitai Asif
There is magic
In remaining
A bit
Stumped
By life.
Bewilderment may well
Reverberate
The strings of
Myth
Enough to generate
A perch for
Understanding.
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Enroll
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Enroll
Full time
In your own life.
Join in your
Own
Cheerleading.
Engage
With what
Fulfills your
Dream.
Become
What you are
Needing.
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Permission
Photo: Atara Katz
Permit yourself
To be
All that you are
Today
With the unfinished corners
Hanging out
For all to see.
Allow yourself
The story
Of the things you
Have become
And still are changing.
Grant your
Everything
A place for be.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
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