Every year the yellow liner peers through the translucent ivory tablecloth embroidered with a chain of floral design. On top sit the timeless Royal Copenhagen white dishes and equally elegant silver flatware, crystal candle holders, the plate Mom painted with the seder symbols decades before paint-your-own-pottery places proliferated, and all the Kiddush cups that the house possesses. Continue reading
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ISO Mountains #2
I look for mountains.
I miss them here in a flat state. Continue reading
This melody
My daughter sleeps in my arms. I sit in the in the timeless modern rocking chair from my infancy, singing Leaving on a Jet Plane and Hebrew folk songs from my childhood. Continue reading