Day 40 9.18 AFTER

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     Did I find my focus?   The 40th day was an exercise in focus, in really being present. Barefoot, in white clothes, wrapped in a large talit, surrounded by friends old and new, lifted by the music, by […]

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Day 39 9.17 OPEN WIDE

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     I cleaned up my home last night and this morning took out a giant bag of trash. As I left the house I took a look at the big trash can in my kitchen, all empty now, […]

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Day 38 9.16 Focus

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus   What’s left to examine on this last night before arrival?     Be cheerful. What an insane habit is this of groping always into the past months, and scraping together every little pitiful instance of awkwardness and misfortune, […]

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Day 37 9.15 SING MORE

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus     Yesterday I played Y. a song from the Song of Songs, a haunting rendition, on my itunes, from a faraway land and time, a perfect expression of a moment that could not yet be spoken.   This […]

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Day 36 9.14 DEAL WITH THE STEAL

High Holy Days Journey with Amichai Lau-Lavie: 40 ways in 40 days to find your focus    “There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is capacity of vice to make your blood creep.” (Emerson)   I got back from LA this morning and my bike is gone, stolen from in front of […]

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