I'll be spending this coming year living and working in bhuj, india.
This blog, which I share with you, is the documentation of many thoughts, feelings, questions and lessons learned along the way.
Katie, I am so moved by your words; also to send this post to Cantor Blum, who taught you that song "Wherever you go..." I especially love the details you notice around you and how you appreciate things like cool wet hair--just beautiful. You are a poet! I remember going to synagogue a few times with my father--one time in particular when he took me into an orthodox shul and I remember how the sing song I was accustomed to in our local temple sounded like such a different form of the same Hebrew--they were mostly Eastern European men. My dad had the same different intonation to his Hebrew. Wonderful to hear the different variations of the same book and language. I love it when you say the Amen sounded like a call to revolution! Perhaps it is! Or was meant to be at one time. Good to remember.
Katie,
ReplyDeleteI am so moved by your words; also to send this post to Cantor Blum, who taught you that song "Wherever you go..."
I especially love the details you notice around you and how you appreciate things like cool wet hair--just beautiful. You are a poet!
I remember going to synagogue a few times with my father--one time in particular when he took me into an orthodox shul and I remember how the sing song I was accustomed to in our local temple sounded like such a different form of the same Hebrew--they were mostly Eastern European men. My dad had the same different intonation to his Hebrew. Wonderful to hear the different variations of the same book and language.
I love it when you say the Amen sounded like a call to revolution! Perhaps it is! Or was meant to be at one time. Good to remember.