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eve ilsen — storyteller. singer. rabbinic pastor. psychotherapist.

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What a day this has been...

February 21, 2017 by Eve Ilsen

I'm still spending too much time on the computer reading about impending disaster and taking whatever actions are possible.  But this day also had brighter spots:  like the time spent with my friend Naomi and a small group of elders at a retirement community.  Getting them to actually begin telling some of their stories was a bit like puling teeth at first; then it got better.

 

On the way home I stopped at a favorite art store for supplies in preparation for a class I will begin to teach soon---an updated reprise of a class I gave the first year we were in Boulder:

"Not In Shul:  Jewish Spiritual Home Practices".

I anticipate it with pleasure---and I know it will be different from the first time I taught it, twenty-one years ago.  

I have had to come to terms with the kind of Jew I am, which is not the typical veryverymental Ashkenazi model.  Much of what nourishes me I learned from my beloved; but it fits best into the kind of day-to-day graceful practices nested in the Sepharadi tradition of my teacher Mme. Colette Aboulker-Muscat.

Soon I turn out the lights and go upstairs and write and examine the day and pray for healing for a long list of people...and for our country.  The bad news of the day was the serious vandalizing of a Jewish cemetery.  The good news was that the funds for repair were raised by the Muslim community.

On that good note:  sweet dreams.

February 21, 2017 /Eve Ilsen
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