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This Year’s Prayer
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I have long believed that prayer is portable. It is too expansive to be uttered only in an edifice such as a church, synagogue, temple, mosque or oak grove. It is not limited to one language or ritual; neither is one religion’s form ‘better’ or more powerful than any other, despite the contention of those who hold fundamentalist…
On Wings
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Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Four years ago, at this moment, an event was in the process of taking place that would change my life as I knew it. My mother was in the ‘birth canal’ on her way to her new life. A few months earlier while she was on hospice, we would have the most extraordinary conversations about…
Child’s Play
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my childhood experiences, almost in a life review format. Chalk it up to turning 56 in a few weeks. I grew up in a two parent household, with a younger sister born 2 1/2 years afterward, so I had some time with them and with my grandmother as an ‘only…
Do Overs
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
As Jews all over the world approach the High Holy Days, we are called upon to face ourselves in a metaphorical mirror and take stock of our lives in the past year. The image isn’t always pretty, but it is real. As I rewind the clock to September, 2013, I witness a woman whose life was on…
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