tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post115894667877775927..comments2024-01-04T08:02:29.500-05:00Comments on Attempts: Shana TovaStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524368948187746248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post-1159587731722392392006-09-29T23:42:00.000-04:002006-09-29T23:42:00.000-04:00Hello Stephen -- sorry to have disappeared from yo...Hello Stephen -- sorry to have disappeared from your blog. I got absurdly busy. And I'd come to the end of what I wanted to contribute to our previous discussion since I wasn't going to go out and actualize anything, so it was a lttle silly for me to keep talking big.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I hope you don't mind if I share here something I've been hanging on to to give myself hope for the last dismal week:<BR/><BR/>The day has come<BR/>To take an accounting of my life.<BR/><BR/>Have I dreamed of late<BR/>Of the person I want to be,<BR/>Of the changes I would make<BR/>In my daily habits,<BR/>In the way I am with others,<BR/>In the friendship I show companions,<BR/>Woman friends, man friends, my partner,<BR/>In the regard I show my father and mother,<BR/>Who brought me out of childhood?<BR/><BR/>I have remained enchained too often to less than what I am.<BR/>But the day has come to take an accounting of my life.<BR/><BR/>Have I renewed of late<BR/>My vision of the world I want to live in,<BR/>Of the changes I would make<BR/>In the way my friends are with each other<BR/>The way we find out whom we love<BR/>The way we grow to educate people<BR/>The way in which the many kinds of needy people<BR/>Grope their way to justice?<BR/><BR/>(from The Wings of Awe, A Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, Washington, D.C.)<BR/><BR/>In time of distress at the injustice around me, I must try to allow renewed vision to come to the surface.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734864.post-1158954308276706692006-09-22T15:45:00.000-04:002006-09-22T15:45:00.000-04:00On behalf of Protestantism, Happy New Year!On behalf of Protestantism, Happy New Year!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com