Hi there.
As you may have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately.
Please don’t take it personally. It’s nothing you’ve said. Or didn’t say.
It’s that for the past while, my writing time has been spent mostly working on a book. Until I get back to blogging more regularly, I thought I’d invite you to check out or revisit some of what I think are the more interesting posts.
SPIRITUAL REPORTAGE
Stumbling Through Blessing is a series of fifteen posts about the Birkot HaShachar, the Jewish morning blessings, and the role they might play in helping us – Jews and non-Jews; believers, agnostics, and atheists – live with more gratitude, presence, and even compassion. Part spiritual reportage, part suggested practice. The series begins here.
Being the Signs is a handful of posts in which I treat street and other signs as mindfulness teachings. Here’s the first post.
Notes from Pilgrimage in Uneasy Times describes my efforts to work with the counting of the Omer, a Jewish practice that falls between Passover and Shavuot, to help navigate through the covid pandemic. In all candour, though I like the first post, I’m not sure how successful the others are (a pandemic will do that to you). But then again, I’m my most demanding critic and you might like them. If you want to join me, start here.
TRAVEL
These are a few pieces I like that have been well-received:
Tales from a Jewish Cow Town: Moises Ville, Argentina (I think the title speaks for itself)
Gone to the School of Greyhound is an account of a two-day, non-stop bus ride from Toronto to Northern Arizona
A pilgrimage along New Orleans’ Royal Road takes you on a long walk through some New Orleans neighbourhoods I love
Lorne Meets World 