Coffee Shop Rabbi (a.k.a. Rabbi Ruth Adar) expressed feelings and ideas I share in this post I re-post on my own blog today.
I wish I had written what she wrote: her words mirror those that struggled to form in my own overwhelmed mind.
When the only thought that comes to mind is “disaster”, I want to stay strong and helpful. I want to use my personal powers of being alive and able.
Doing one good deed at a time.
Even if that one deed is to continue publishing one blog at a time.
Image: Sonoma, CA, in better times. (jessebridgewater/pixabay)
Hurricanes. Wildfires.
A little over a week ago we said the Unetaneh Tokef prayer, “Who by water and who by fire,” expressing the fact that we simply do not know what the future will bring each person. And since then, we have seen so many bad things: the aftermath of hurricane and floods in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico, and the fires in the West, especially in Northern California this week.
The news from Washington is deeply upsetting to many of us. Who would have thought we’d see a President of the United States have a name-calling match on Twitter with one of the leaders of his own party? Who would have thought we’d see a name-calling game of nuclear chicken play out on Twitter between heads of state?
I have not posted for a week. Some of that was a…
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