‘As the Hasidic master Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav said, “Everything in this world has a heart; the heart itself has its own heart.” I was reading www.aish.com today, looking for thoughts on the Heart and found this – Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel today took out a full-page ad in the Wall…
For the Hirsch Family in Mea Sherim Jerusalem 2010 June They greet each other with joy and tenderness as they enter. The word they use is the Yiddish ‘Shabbos!’, but it is pronounced Shabbis!Having spent an evening on the Blessed Sabbath Friday evening with this family and talking to Shoshanah, I felt so blessed and…
This is my Valentine’s Card to whoever doesn’t have one today! I photographed these strawberries in Slough this summer, and they look happy. So Happy Valentine’s Day wherever you are in life or on the planet. Let it shine!
I’m sorry, but God is out of control. It’s alarming, but clear to see.He’s embarking on more and more projects each dayWithout consulting me. What I think it would be wise to doIs to section him off, on his ownIn a place where His schemes can play out to the fullBut He’ll chiefly be ‘Home…
‘Yes, it’ll just be gorgeous!’, said God with a gleeful grin.‘All the fun of the flesh, you know, with a spiritual life thrown in!’ ‘Well, I, think it sounds excessive indeed!’ said Lucifer, ‘What about me?Why should they get all the best of both worlds, absolutely free?’ ‘Because Lucificer, they’ll love it. Just imagine the…
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is also the day we began the Bard School. I was struck, (after looking through the many websites and articles on Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception of Mary), by this intense and penetrating gaze of Bernadette, the 14 year old peasant girl from a…
God said, ‘Enjoy the Sacred Tree! Don’t consume it, Let it be.. Contemplate the fruit-filled boughWonder at beauty, bless and bow, Reverence its inviolate charmsAnd leave in peace from the grasping arms The Tree that exists for its sake aloneNot to be a victim of the take and own.’ But Eve attended to the Serpent’s…
You enjoy too much I thinkThe pleasures of unconsciousnessBut someone very near will bear The price that you won’t pay You rejoice too long I think In the palace of penumbraAnd in the planes between the worldsWhat tunes you love to play.I have stood too long I thinkBy a door without dimension ‘Lazarus dome forth…
Hurrah for wonderful people who do things with originality and humour.. Check out Out of the Ordinary a workshop in East London where you can make beautiful and useful things from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. Their blogspot homepage says – “Imagine an urban habitat for people who like to tinker with a…
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