Story! Gate A4, and Letters

I might have posted this one before. Anyway I've read it before. About making connections. And kindness.
Gate A4 by Naomi Shihab Nye

And on a somber note (I cried and cried)
Noon Time Talk: Dearest Children, Letters from the Holocaust 1938-1941.
Scroll to October 14, 2020 if there are more events on top.

View the recording of Emanuel and Regine Loew’s grandson Robert Lowe and translators Ingrid Preston and Christoph Stauder for a fascinating conversation about this instructive collection of 168 letters, what they reveal about life in Vienna before and after Kristallnacht, about family connection across great distance, and about the process of translation. The letters also chronicle the family’s years of struggle with the United States immigration system – a struggle that they lost, and a struggle with direct relevance to events in the US today.

Counting up to the election: Yesod and Malchut

rosefox's post on Yesod

Yesod is located in the pelvis, and to me it is about earthy, messy embodiment. No seriously, here we are, right here, exactly like this.

( Week of Yesod )

This doesn't directly answer any of the prompts, but I think it answers the essence of it, living our convictions, even when it's uncomfortable: In a zoom dance gathering I was helping to run (so I couldn't leave), I turned my video off to protest two people dancing together on video without masks even though they're not in the same household. They left the zoom call, which is a good enough outcome. I can't make anyone wear a mask, but I can be public about my passionate conviction that it's the right thing to do. At least I didn't have to watch them flaunting it and being a bad example to everyone on the call, like last time this came up.

rosefox's post on Malchut

Malchut is our embodiment of the divine, our connection to all that is, not from above coming into us, but toward the earth. All that *IS*, concretely, with dirt under our fingernails.

Here, have story that feels relevant, Pocosin by Ursula Vernon. Ran across it again today.

Is there something about Malchut and anxiety? Medicine in Malchut for anxiety? OMG the anxiety! One step, one breath at a time.

( Week of Malchut )

Election Day: I woke up thinking that sometimes not-knowing is the best part, as uncomfortable as it is, so I might as well enjoy the last few hours of it. So far nothing bad has happened, that I know of anyway (2:45pm PST). I would like this to be a Y2K scenario: a no big deal outcome because of all the work people put into preventing disaster.

Thanks again for doing this, rosefox. It was interesting and useful as an activity to get through the time until the election, and a window on someone else's take on Kabbalah, and a reminder that the skills I worked very hard to acquire on my first run through a few years ago are still there.