Reason #19: We Cry A Lot
When I was a child, my mom used to say “Cry, petunia, cry”. She would say this every time I cried, in a kind of a mocking way. I imagine it was her way of coping with a child that cried a lot. The...
View ArticleReason #110: We Lose Our Sense of a Greater Good
Today, my son’s occupational therapist came in wearing a shirt that said “We are in G-d’s favor” (except G-d was spelled with the “o” in the middle). That shirt gave me pause for thought. First of all,...
View ArticleReason #126: Yom Kippur
Last night, my mom and I went to Yom Kippur services at our local temple. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement. It is a time when Jews atone for their sins against their fellow humans, and against G-d....
View ArticleReason #188: Righteousness
“The righteous man quickly finds the world aligns against him.” I was watching a re-run of “The Good Wife” today, and an Orthodox Jew said the quote above. It got me thinking about righteousness in...
View ArticleReason #267: That was a really shitty thing You did
I have been listening To Rihanna’s song: We Found Love (In A Hopeless Place). I have been thinking that this is what happened to me. I found love in a hopeless place, with a man who turned out to be a...
View ArticleReason #285: Mi Sheberach
As a survivor, I have always had a difficult time getting to sleep and then staying asleep. This last year of marriage breaking and almost dying in a hospital has probably worsened this already...
View ArticleReason #297: A Funeral, A Ritual, Something to Mark this Time
Last week, I told my therapist that in a week my ex-husband is shedding his/her male identity entirely, and going full-time female. (She began her new life as an outwardly-appearing female today,...
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