The Sill of the World

From a morning walk, before the workday started:

amber The honey is a deep gold brown. It caresses the light and draws it in; particles of light shine faintly from inside of it. commonalit...

anger It washes up my throat, pricks at my eyes, swamps my chest and stomach. My remedy is to go for a walk, to hunch over a book, to gaze ...

Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) starts this evening, and I'm reading these words now from Abraham Joshua Heschel's book God in Sea...

birth For close to an hour I sit with my eyes closed; they feel heavy, but sleep won't come. The airplane cabin is dark, most passenger...

chalk It's been a while since I've seen a blackboard in use for an entire lesson or talk. I've gotten used to Powerpoint slides...

I'll be taking a work-related trip early next week, and that's followed by the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, so it's likely I won...