by Debra Darvick | Jan 26, 2014 | His Lens/My Pen
Starting 2014 with a tribute to friendship. Martin and I were in Malibu visiting our son Elliot some years back. The gulls were hunting and pecking, calling and cawing to one another. They must have received the same message simultaneously because seconds later the...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 20, 2014 | Musings, Read the Spirit
OH boy is the universe a joker! Can’t be a total coincidence that not five hours after I attend a meditation class that focussed on the sense of hearing, I broke something I treasured for the delightful sounds it made. Rabbi Aaron Bergman led the class, and...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 13, 2014 | Musings, Read the Spirit
I’ve gone only twice, but I’m beginning to love those Wednesday mornings. It’s a perfect loop: artistic creativity, getting to know an ever-expanding circle of women, an ample nosh, and best of all the knowledge that each of our creations will be...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Author Shirley Hershey Showalter crossed my radar one day on Read the Spirit. In her own words she’s “a farmer’s daughter who became a college professor, college president, and foundation executive.” Her memoir, Blush, A Mennonite Girl Meets a...
by Debra Darvick | Jan 6, 2014 | Musings, Prayerlooms, Read the Spirit, Uncategorized
Basements are the modern-day equivalent to the genizah. Genizah, (Hebrew root g-n-z) originally referred to the act of putting away or hiding. The word eventually developed to refer to the actual place where things were deposited, which I think is a perfect example of...
