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This Was Passover
I joined my son’s family and friends on Monday night for the reading of the haggadah, the ancient story of the liberation of the enslaved Hebrew people…
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Truthtelling
It’s not easy to tell the truth, to reach down and touch how you feel about something or someone and then to crank up the volume. To say it out loud…
Apr 17
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Susie Kaufman
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Collaging a Life
Gathering the disparate pieces together, seeing how they fit, what patterns emerge. Not thinking too much or at all. Just watching the birds take their…
Apr 10
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Susie Kaufman
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Lessons Not Yet Learned
People often complain that what we learn in school, like say algebra, has no value, no real life application. Sometimes these people opine on how we’d…
Apr 3
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Susie Kaufman
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March 2024
My Career, Redux
A Many Voices Guest Post by Lyn Chamberlin
Mar 31
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Susie Kaufman
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The World As It Is
“The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.” I have always loved this line from the West Indian poet Derek Walcott. It…
Mar 27
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Susie Kaufman
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Weak in the Knees
Some people have voracious appetites for experience. They want to go everywhere, see everything, mix and match and mingle. I am not so inclined. I want…
Mar 20
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Susie Kaufman
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What Children Know
Madelyn comes back from the coop with a dozen brown eggs speckled with straw and chicken shit. Her work is done. The day stretches before her with hours…
Mar 13
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Susie Kaufman
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Warming up in Cabo
It was unrelentingly cold and wet in the Sierras this winter. A phalanx of viruses attacked us from left and right, leaving us, in spite of antibiotics…
Mar 6
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Susie Kaufman
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February 2024
Lost and Found: Things Missing and Discovered
A Many Voices Guest Post by Jocelyn Lovelle
Feb 25
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Susie Kaufman
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Small Bites
I’m now experiencing everything in small bites, taking baby steps. When you’re young, you think of old as another country very far away, a country you…
Feb 21
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Susie Kaufman
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Way Too Much
I’m always amazed when people say they’re not all that interested in food. How is this possible? The only thing that surpasses food in the hierarchy of…
Feb 14
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Susie Kaufman
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