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Changing the Dishes
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Fellow Good Men Project author Thomas Fiffer shared his insights about the holiday of Passover. I saw his blog entry this morning as I was contemplating what to write for today’s Bliss Blog. Having been raised in a Jewish home, Passover was eagerly anticipated all year long. The pre-holiday tradition of changing the dishes was the…
Self Imposed Slavery
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Tonight marks the first night of Passover which commemorates the journey from slavery to freedom of the Jews in Egypt who were compelled to work at the peril of their own lives. Jews around the world (and others who are invited guests as they were in my childhood home) will gather to celebrate and engage in a…
Hot Air Balloon
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Recently I was speaking with someone about the things that weigh us down, like a hot air balloon tethered to the ground with heavy rope, spiked into the dirt, sandbags reinforcing them. Self deprecation, limiting beliefs, old worn out ideas that no longer serve, all of the shoulda /woulda/ coulda yammering vying for our attention.…
Touching Souls
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“Love is touching souls. Surely you touched mine. ‘Cause part of you pours out of me. In these lines from time to time. Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine…” -Joni Mitchell (A Case of You) I just returned from a memorial service for a woman I didn’t know well. I…
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