“The Next Pandemic” [Poem with video]
After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poet Beth Weinstock. We met on May 31 for a Poetry Circle during which we read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the other and then comment with encouragement and criticism. Here is the...
“Do The Pandemic” [Poem with video]
After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the others and then comment with encouragement and...
“Now You Know” [Poem with video]
After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems -- finished and unfinished -- to the others and then comment with encouragement and...
“Access To Francis” [Poem with video]
Here is a poem inspired on Good Friday and Easter 2020 by images of the Pope presenting his messages to the world amid pandemic solitude. After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Audrey Brahler. We met on...
“String, Foil, and Bands” [poem with video]
I wrote this, after my sister asked what I thought our parents would have thought about this pandemic. Of blessed memory: Arthur J. Isaac, Jr., born, 1917; died, 1991. Jacquelin Fihn Isaac, born, 1927; died, 2012. String, Foil, and Bands I remember roaming in my...
“Make Time To Worry” [poem with video]
I wrote this today on a Zoom call with Rabbi Sharon Mars and her Congregants from Temple Israel of Columbus, during a conversation about Mussar and worry. After writing this, I see that many have suggested scheduling time for worry. There are many online resources for...
Three Lenses for Context
Hello, friends. I hope that you and yours are healthy and resilient. For your consideration, here are three thoughts that might help place this experience in a broader context. 1. This might be your Crucible Moment — the maximum challenge that tempers you for your...
What Care Of Nature? [with video]
What Care Of Nature? Deer leap our fence, to graze the early springtime grass. I had missed how predictable their comings and goings, as if a daily commute from the Glen to our yards and back. Birds cross above, on flight plans I'd underlooked, with not prey in their...
Tea Time
Is it just me, or does it feel kind of apocalyptic around here? What feels to you like a harbinger of the end? Politics? Virus? Environment? Buffoons? Markets? What are you doing about this crazy world? What are you doing about it? Here's a suggestion. Make a cup of...
Not Telling You What To Do
"I don't like telling adults what to do." I have said that many times. Usually, it's part of an answer to the question: "Why didn't you enjoy owning a business?" I answer, "Why didn't I enjoy owning a business? Because I never liked telling adults what to do."...