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The Moon
Ramana Maharishi, thought to be one of the most gifted sages, introduced a meditation called, “Who Am I?” Over the years I would have easily answered this question with, “I am a daughter, a sister, a friend a wife, a social worker” and so forth but as I got older, I...
The Hanged Man
In the 12th Major Arcana Tarot card, the Hanged Man is hanging from a tree upside down. He has a peaceful expression and in the Ryder Waite deck there is a halo around his head. Words like sacrifice, wisdom and spirituality are used to describe him. What I found most...
The Salt Marsh
I live across the street from a salt marsh, in the south-east corner of Brooklyn. Marine Park. When we first moved there, the salt marsh was a dumping ground for abandoned cars until the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers cleaned it out: the image of a totem pole of...
Really?
When cancer was over it was hard to move onEverything ended and old opportunities were gone. Though I was cancer free, it hardly mattered.I didn’t want to start over, I felt tired and battered. I felt finished and wanted life to be done,There was no zest for life and...
Choosing Life Again
When I was first diagnosed with cancer, February 2020, I wrote an essay called Choosing Life where I spoke about the ambivalence I often felt about life and a favorite cartoon on a postcard that explained it all: it showed a man leaning over a counter, returning a...
The Tower
I started picking a Tarot card for the day in January 2023 when we went to Aruba for a vacation. My husband’s family took an immediate liking to the cards and their interest gave me the extra incentive I needed to reignite my interest. At the same time, I started to...