Flip the question
Read this first, then watch the video: Every year under a unique leadership development program run by my wiser than wise friend, Eliav Zakay, small groups of 15-17 year olds in Israel are given an assignment: Develop a community service project that will last beyond your work on it, that …
Slide and sign
Tess "graduated" from Pre-K today. She’ll graduate from High School in the year 2021. I’ll be 90. Johnny Depp will be 86. And evidently the Democratic primaries will still be going on. School ended FOR THE ENTIRE WHOLE SUMMER at noon today, followed by a picnic for all the families …
What will it take?
Today, I feel the claustrophobic feeling I had when 9/11 occurred, when Katrina hit, when the tsunami swallowed people up, when I first toured Auschwitz as a teenager. It is the weight of knowing, the knowing we must all hold. Once we know, we can’t not-know. If my town were …
She had me at “cow town”
Oh, my. I love to shop on Etsy. Real artists making art. I’ve made a conscious commitment to buy handmade. My dream is to create a small shop at 37day.net that will include only handmade objects that relate to my blog and book (did I mention I’ve written a book?), …
Poets teach us that darkness is a gift
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. -Stephen Mallarme This one is for Trudy. Before you read today’s poem, I want you to do something for me. I want you to find a small box in your house or office, …
Welcome to 37days…
At some point in our lives, we’ll all just have thirty-seven days to live. Maybe that day is today. Maybe not. There are new, interesting eyes (and, presumably, whole faces) peeking into 37days recently—many as a result of this site being newly noted as a TypePad Featured Blog. Thanks, TypePad! …
Be generous and love more
When I started writing LIFE IS A VERB, the first book to emerge from these pages of 37days, I started noticing patterns, like all of life is a pattern. What were the organizing patterns around which these essays fell? What lessons were they teaching me? As I sat and read …
