
Reciting Vidui for My Father
This transition is the Grand Finale, the climax of spirit and integrity.

This transition is the Grand Finale, the climax of spirit and integrity.



How, in an unfolding age of continuing pandemic, are we supposed to rise out of our chairs and dance?

I want us to use these Holy Days—and to begin to emerge from our social distancing—by living not only our resume, but our eulogy.

Conversation is used to build community. It establishes the capacity to understand a viewpoint not our own and see the humanity of those who walk in the world differently than we do.

How do we respond to nature’s resurgence? These new expressions of vitality evoke the deepest feelings of marvel, awe and joy, and we are invited to join the re-emergence into life through our presence, our attention and our words.


Breaking through their isolation and our distance felt like the darkness lifting.
