There’s More To You Than You Realize

How a scary moment with my mother caused me to refocus my mind and remind me how to deal with moments of turbulence.

Donald Trump won’t be able to control us where it really matters.

We open it with a tiny smile, a breath, a whisper. With a hand placed on a friend’s back so she doesn’t need to cry alone, even if you can’t imagine why she needs to be a crying.

If they are monsters, then so are we! Get used to your own reflection in the mirror, and see if you can bear up with that.

We need to remember that there is so much more change within us than we believe possible.

Without the capacity to see beyond the ceiling of our own personal clouds, we fear that a substantive increase in our giving will deplete us.

Habits are hard to change… but only because our brain has convinced us they are.

Never doubt that you can bounce back eventually. I didn’t believe it until it happened. But art gave me that hope.

People wonder what they can do to decrease the tumult in the world today. I offer only this: That we rededicate ourselves to the ideal of giving to our children as a means of creating more love.

It’s Yom Kippur: time for my annual sermon. And time, as always, for introspection.