Thanksgiving

We celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada today, and indeed we have a lot to be grateful for…

Yom Kippur – a Day of Atonement

This is the day for contemplation, for remembering the year that passed and considering your actions or inactions toward your fellow humans and yourself. The past year tested everyone, and each of us had our own challenges with isolation, health issues, and anxiety…

How Much is a Life Worth?

A new Netflix movie “Worth” is airing ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.  I suspect that we will be inundated with many more reminders of that cursed day that changed the world forever …

From Despair to Celebration

Today I met on zoom a person from Afghanistan in the Pocket Project meeting of my Trauma-informed leadership course.  It was heartbreaking and at the same time inspiring…

Teeth

Everyone I spoke with this week had some issues with teeth and dentists. Perhaps it is a result of eating too many sweets and snacks during the many lockdowns we experienced in the past two years…

PC-Personal Computer

We were sitting in the car at the parking lot of the drug store, waiting for the results of our COVID-19 rapid test…

Stuff

Returning to our home in Canada, I was struck by the amount of stuff that is still there.  The garage is filled with …

Bags and Baggage

I imagine we all receive from time to time little stories that circulate from one friend to another. A few weeks ago, I received the following story: A man went to the store to pick up just a few groceries…

The Keeper of the Keys

Recently I was occupied by organizing keys to the house and to the gate leading to the garden. The housekeys have to be coupled with remote controls for the alarm system, …

Fast and Feast

This year, the ninth of the month of Av, a Jewish fast day, occurred together with the Muslim fast day El Youm al Tarbiyah…