Dear Dr. Ford: I would like to recommend to you a recently published book, The Choice, by Dr. Edith Eger. Dr. Eger, a psychologist who has worked with victims of …
You Killed My Father: Prepare to Learn
Yesterday, a student sent her class a story she read about a young man, a football star who was adopted as an infant and his search for his biologic family. …
No-thingness is Something Else
I search and I scan for the perfect metaphor Abhorring imprecision or worse selling out To the exigencies of a concocted cocktail A ballerina poising on a sharpened pinkie The …
The Postman Rings Twice
What does the electrician who is now a spiritual teacher and the postal worker who now interprets dreams share in common? Typically, we see metaphor as beyond the concrete and …
Addressing Your Masks
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. The Book of Genesis starts off with a bang and ends with some dust. In between it is one …
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Melting ICE
The United States remains one of only a handful of countries to retain the Fahrenheit temperature system and therefore, we are aware that ice begins to melt as it reaches …
“How to Win the Fight Against Fear” Guest Blog by KE Teacher, Rabbi Jamie Arnold
The principal of a local high school calls me up. “Hey rabbi, we had another anti-Semitic incident at our school. I’ve spoken to the student and his parents, but I’d …
The Intimate Picture
Louis Kahn, the great American architect, died in 1974 in a washroom at Penn Station. He was alone when his heart gave out. His only son, Nathan was eleven. A …
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Holding Your Opposite
Which is it—grey or gray? Isn’t it fitting that there isn’t a black and white answer. Turns out they are both acceptable ways to spell my favorite color. Gray is …
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Orchestrating Change
Awareness principle four: Live by setting intention. Be open to possibility—one door closing opens another. Measure success by effort not by outcome. In the Tree of Life this awareness …