Photo: Atara Katz
Differentiate the urge
To disobey
For pure defiance’s sake,
From the value of resisting
Those who violate
Or lower what’s at stake.
Refuse the rush
Of righteousness
That rebellions can wake,
And replace it with the strength
Of discerning hate from kindness,
Truth from fake.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Like pebbles on the beach
Like grains of sand
Like leaves upon the trees
Like flowers in a meadow
May we never be alone
In sorrow
And in hope.
May we find solace
In each other
And may compassion
Weave heart strands together
So we remember
How alike we are
Each one its own true flower
Each one part of the whole
In sorrow
And in hope.
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Tribute in Light — Photo: DOD
On the eve of 9/11
In this city that has been forever changed
As it had its core humanity
Revealed
In uncountable acts of kindness
Under devastation,
I revisit
The day
The sky grew dark
With smoke
And hearts broke open
With compassion.
For more information on tomorrow night’s Tribute in Light
For the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Photo: Amitai Asif
As change and challenge come
And you are stretched
Beyond what seems possible
To overcome,
Recall
How transformation
Can become
Its own journey
To an unexpected
Outcome.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
As night gives way to day
And rain to sunshine
In cycles of expected
Understanding,
May we not forget
How our steps and deeds
Feed the beat of storms
Intensifying
Spur the crush of waves
Amplifying
Augment the tremors of fault lines
Magnifying
In
Earth’s crescendo,
Notifying.
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Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Within the infinite expanse
So immeasurably borderless
In perpetual ebb
And flow
And breath
And glow,
There hides
The implausible
Yet glaringly finite
Reality
That it too
Is delimited
By wind
And storm
And distant shores.
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Abel Tasman Coast Track; Photo: Inbar Asif
Hold up those who are too small
So they, too, can have a view
And visibility.
Hoist up those who are too timid
Or are silenced
So they, too, can have a voice
And secure platform.
Elevate the discourse
On behalf of those
Who had forgotten
Or had become accustomed
To degraded declarations,
And so can use a gentle template
How.
Offer a hand to those most in need
Of a perspective
So they may see
Broader horizons
For understanding
Not just might
But heart and mind.
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Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Any space
Will do
If you take time
To teach
Yourself
Your doll
Or anyone
Who will sit
Long enough
To listen …
But mostly
Yourself
Again,
Because what you
Choose
To replicate
Is what you teach
Today,
And what
Becomes
Your tomorrow.
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Photo: Dvora Freedman
Our lives are partially the story of others, interwoven into our own. In the good and the bad and the things that time may shift to someplace in between. We are who we let our story make us into. Like the seasons that spin about us, we recycle some bits of our story and reuse other aspects to rebuild or grow from. Through it all, our lives crease along the odd and unexpected, yet are fed by the mundanely profound interactions that form the backdrop to the breaths we take, each day, each moment, as we continue on.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
As tensions hold
The edge
Between manageable
And overwhelmed,
Between spared
And flooded,
Be tender.
As scales tip
To potentiate
Disaster
And fluctuate
From safe
To calamitous,
Be kind.
Remember how
Critical times
Hold within them
The balance
Of rebuilding
On the fabric of
Strength
And profound
Understanding.
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