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Continue reading →: “Let’s fast forward to 300 take out coffees later…”
~I really wanted to share this post before the one year anniversary of my move, but my wife and I needed more time to get the blog up. This was written around May 11th, 2025~ I started getting really into Taylor Swift’s music right around when I started planning to…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Bible Collection: Esther (+ One Night with the King)
I began this review in March, when we watched the films in question, but due to the relaunch of the blog, held back from posting it. Please find below my review of two very different films adapting the biblical story of Esther. — Purim 5785, 13th of Adar. For the…
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On Becoming: A Getting to Know Who I Was, Am, Will Be…
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Continue reading →: On Becoming: A Getting to Know Who I Was, Am, Will Be…Meaning-making. Answer seeking. Question querying. I feel these ideas in my bones. “I try to still look with wonder on the world” – Florence + the Machine, Cassandra “I come from a long line of people who believe in things like flowers that grow in the cracks in the streets. Here…
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Continue reading →: Joan is Bustin’ Out All Over
This post title is a reference to a random old Broadway song that is maybe to cutesy and punny even for me, and also at odds with the rest of the post, but I couldn’t resist. I got to meet a NEW JOAN. Well, new to me. May 30th is…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Jewish Holiday and An Erotic Springtime Countdown
Yesterday marked Shavuos, a holiday holding a lot of weight around ancient harvest festivals and cosmic revelation of the Torah to the Jewish people. Shavuos is my favorite Jewish holiday for a few reasons; as a convert I really love that there’s an idea all Jews who ever were/are/will be…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Cosmic Well
We talk about faith a lot in our house, which is perhaps to be expected for a multi-religious queer convert couple navigating Jewish and Muslim holy days in an increasingly puritanical country while building a life in the American South. For us faith has been – together and individually –…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Bible Collection: Jacob
Jacob – Jan 10 I’m a bit late posting this review, and in writing it. We watched the film on Jan 10th, whereas I’m posting around Feb 23rd. I tend to move through phases of excited interest, with some things remaining constant but still ebbing and flowing. One of those…
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Continue reading →: The Miracle of Hanukkah is Resistance
Welcome to 2025! A new (gregorian) year has begun, and the challenges forced on us by Patriarchal-Colonialism, from ongoing genocides, biosphere collapse, and lack of access to food, water, community, and land continue. To end 2024 and start 2025, I wrote a Hanukkah reflection that touches on some of these…
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Continue reading →: The Other “Genesis 1”
Here is a speculative “reconstruction” of the Other Genesis 1, a potential version of the Israelite story of Yahweh, son of El Elyon, slaying Tehom/Leviathan and creating the world from her body. Scholars are mixed on whether there ever was an Israelite version of a story like this, but here…
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Continue reading →: Film Review: Abraham (1993)
I’m posting this a week after we watched it, which coincided with the start of Abraham’s story in Rabbinic Liturgical Calendar for Torah reading. Right off the bat, I’ll say this was a very different viewing experience than Genesis: Creation and Flood. Whereas Genesis was an inventive film, this one…