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Incurable?
Incurable? On the whole, I don’t hold a grudge. If I’ve been injured in some way, but the wound is either cured — or else not the kind of thing that can be patched up — that ends the incident … Continue reading
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Situated in History
Situated in History This might be an unusual trait, but I am someone who has trouble knowing who she is, and what life asks of her, until she gets some clarity about her place in history. By “place in history” … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate timeline, biblical archetype, Cain and Abel, cheap grace, Chilul HaShem, Christian forgiveness, curing racism, desecration of the name, ecological solutions, feminine dignity, forgetting wrongs, forgiveness as therapy, forgiving wrongs, global competition, God as Witness, God in history, God's feminine image, history and Jews, history as illusion, Isaiah's vision, Jewish forgiveness, Jewish identity, linear time and narrative, linear time and religion, messianic expectations, original sin, personal transformation, place in history, Plato's Republic, redemption, satyagraha, saving the planet, sibling rivalry, spiritually incurable, stains on conscience, the course of human events, the historical condition, time and Jews, wrestling with the angel
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Are People Really Good at Heart?
Are People Really Good at Heart? “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” These words — set down as a belief, not a question — are among the last lines in the diary … Continue reading
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Tagged acts of kindness, American idealists, being set up, believing illusions, believing the best, Bergen Belsen, betrayal to the Nazis, Black American Exiles, concentration camp, death in the desert, defenselessness, Egyptian authorities, enabling, enabling evildoers, Fulbright scholars, gestures of kindness, good-heartedness, hiding from the Nazis, Holocaust victims, human goodness, human kindness, human nature, idealistic values, Isis attack, John Armstrong, kindness as natural, Kindness Tour, kindness tourists, Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, life lessons, lowering defenses, misguided trust, mistakes of kindness, mitzvot, mortal miscalculations, naivete, non-violence, Parisian expatriate, reforming evildoers, repairing the world, Richard Wright, safeguarding good people, satyagraha, saving good people, The Diary of Anne Frank, the goodness of others, The Shoah, thirst and exposure, tragedy, trusting people, Tweety bird
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Paradigm Shifts
Paradigm Shifts We live under the sheltering umbrellas of our worldviews. To the point where we would feel naked if we were caught in the street without them. That being the case (that we run around conceptually clothed, whether we … Continue reading
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“The Suffering of the Situation”
“The Suffering of the Situation” While the record snowfall piled up, higher than my shoulders where it touched the house in some corners, I was not thinking how beautiful it all was. I was not breaking out the marshmallows to … Continue reading →