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"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor,
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I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph. ... ...
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<br />JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-94270523106990902014-11-22T07:37:00.000-08:002018-02-18T08:31:54.419-08:00Purple Lupine<div style="line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For an hour today, from 5:30am, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am blown over again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in the radiance of G*d’s colorful surprises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-36042115852137590912014-05-29T09:09:00.000-07:002015-05-18T12:43:42.457-07:00Radiant Strength of Shechina<strong style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Psalms of My Soul</strong><br />
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<i style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">e</i><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>ach morning for my prayers, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I face East toward Jerusalem. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I feel the Indwelling Presence, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>the strength of the Holy One </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>infuse me with the Glory of Gifts.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>In the darkness, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>waiting for sun to rise, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>my heart expands </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>in joy receiving arrival </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>of colors aligned </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>amongst clouds </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and mountains </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and seen through trees, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>of the rising sun. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The swift hummingbird sits </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and nearby, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Ms. Mockingbird sings </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and radiance </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>appears to our world </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>of transcendent brilliance. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I am already full, </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>full as Malchut.</i></span><br />
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This morning of Jan. 17th, it is the 20th anniversary</div>
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That morning I was in my Northridge home.</div>
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Today a terrible wild fire takes 22 homes,<br />
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and the sunrise color is strangely red.</div>
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Today is my husband's, z'l, <i>yahrzeit, </i>Jan. 17, 17 Tevet, <br />
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He died 8 years ago.</div>
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It is a morning filled with darkness.</div>
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I don't want to photograph the morning.<br />
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this week of Tu B'Shvat, Birthday of the Trees,</div>
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and see the tiny <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">iridescent-colored </span></span>bird<br />
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There is light.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">FIGs: Photos and Poems</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";"> of the Schuylkill River,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">I told the cops that I had NO ID on
me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">and that my name was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";"><b>Gentle Joy from Utopia</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">A bit beligerant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">being booked at police station<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">charged with trespassing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">because "ducks were mating in breeding
season"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">and visitors <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">(from New York and California <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">on a very rainy late winter's day)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">were not allowed on the little island<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">in the middle of the River<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">by Strawberry Mansion Bridge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">We friends ignored the bullhorn
warnings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">the river police on their boats used </span><br />
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us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">as they blasted us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">and dragged us away from our boats <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">and the little island<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">in the middle of the River<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">in the Sixties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">I was from Utopia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">10.29.2018</span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";"> </span><a href="https://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/utopia.html" style="font-family: Times;">https://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/utopia.html</a></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";">~<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "arial";"><b>PS</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scary stormy car trip with flat
tire from Queens College (QC), NY to Philadelphia was one filled with compassion as my
mother, z"l, had just died, and dear NY friends and one from California,
spent the cold rainy winter's day with me. Tobin drove us in his '56 Chevy to our friends </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;">Sue and Ron, both </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Phily graduate schools.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My gentle Sixties friends of ill
repute all went onto graduate schools and fine helping professions and were
probably never again arrested for trespassing on islands with mating ducks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was the Sixties and I braved the Sit-ins, blocking the QC President's office. I was from Utopia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">I performed Guerilla Street Theatre, and I studied with La Mama Troupe. </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was from Utopia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hung out with SDS, Students for a Democratic Society. I</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;">t was the Sixties and </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was from Utopia.</span><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peacefully at night I hung out alone in the Queens College ceramics basement studio on campus in deep Oneness meditation with my clay, that led to my full scholarship to graduate school and my teaching adults at a Manhattan art school, Cooper Square. It was the Sixties and I was from Utopia.</span><br />
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<i>It was fun mating together on Peter's Island, playing under Strawberry Mansion Bridge. </i></div>
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<i>You, me, Mike, Larry, Ron, Sue and Suzanne.</i></div>
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Peter's Island, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, PA</div>
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MIA (missing in action) in another boat</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Happy that "Flight" is accepted and published into Israel's <u>The Deronda Review</u>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 13px;">a magazine of poetry and thought </span><span style="font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 13px;">Vol. 7 No. 2 2018 page 27 of 44</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 14px;">The Deronda Review, vol. VII no. 2 (2018) may be read or downloaded in .pdf format <a href="http://www.derondareview.org/vol7no2.pdf">here</a> or in .html format <a href="http://www.derondareview.org/vol7no2.htm">here</a>!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I accepted the position of ARTS editor of the <u>Jewish Calendar Magazine</u> in 1982, I told the publisher that I would ONLY take the job if I could publish poetry. I named my column Chai Lights for the next dozen years in Magazine and couple dozen more years on-line. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had met a child survivor of the Holocaust, Suzanne Szekely, and as an adult to survive her earlier traumatic memories, she was writing poetry. To be supportive, I wanted her poems published and that is what I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At times I still see poets whose poems I had published—Florence Weinberger and Chana Bell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now my poems are in print. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thank you to Israel's <b>Esther Cameron and Mindy Aber</b> for publishing me in <u>The Deronda Review</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Personal poet friends Ruth Fogelman, Jean Katz and Marty Cohn Spiegel have guided me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">took flight two years ago or they died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">never returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Magnificent symphonies stilled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">My heart broken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">facing East on high hillside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">they perched on fence or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">sat quietly alert on tallest thin branch of my big mama fig tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">as they listened to sweet songs from their friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">I miss them; I look up and they are not there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Another 'Flight' poem: </span><br />
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I can die.</div>
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It’s OK if I die.</div>
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I’ll join my Rebbe, z”l in Heaven. </div>
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While I was editing/cropping Agave, </div>
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that my photo looked like my mother's, obm, art,<br />
all green <span style="background-color: white;">(which I truly couldn't stand) </span><br />
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from 50-60 years ago.<br />
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Art mostly hanging on walls of our NY home, now gone,</div>
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over the green upholstered, down feather couch</div>
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which I wasn't allowed to sit on.<br />
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I still have a metal serving tray</div>
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Shocking that I had no idea</div>
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I was so connected to Mom from so long ago. </div>
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She, too, before me, was also</div>
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a poet, photographer, multi-dimensional artist, and a gardener,</div>
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but Mom died young, 49 years old, over 44 years ago.</div>
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Mom had worked WW II in the Pentagon<br />
and in the aftermath of the Holocaust,</div>
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the only religion statement I heard growing up,</div>
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Maybe Mom is helping G*d to paint the sunrise...</div>
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JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-33146703324601531842013-08-18T07:38:00.000-07:002014-02-03T19:34:04.486-08:00Geese In Flight Haiku<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Geese In Flight</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Waiting for the sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">looking toward the Old City</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">G*d's beauty meets me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #0d3f81;">River of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #5d008b;">Painted Path</span></b><span style="color: #5d008b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Joy
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torah, a path to follow, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometimes through a dense
forest, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with Light guiding the way, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and painted with the colors of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Path may be curvy or
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">short or long, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">narrow or wide, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the path rapid or slow, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">high or level? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Familiar or new? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Torah gives place to pause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breathe deeply, reflect, and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From flowing waters, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ear of the heart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quiet the mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Shema /</i> listen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What do you hear?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is my path, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my purpose
toward the Divine One?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do rocks, challenges, become
obstacles (to a well), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or provide places to step higher
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Shema. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you hear the sounds of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tinkle, splash, rush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">falling, passing over the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the heart awakened?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the quiet shade of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">high, by a cliff,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big Sur</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">overlooking the ocean, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have sat <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a gentle mountain
spring, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and played my Tibetan singing
bowl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I sing Shalom / peace. I am
grateful. I am at Onement. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">G*d is Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are created<i> B'Tzelem Elokim</i> /
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">River of Light </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of our illuminated
heart </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lives in the path of the Tree of Life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning with <i>Chesed</i> /
Loving-Kindness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to <i>Malchut</i> / Shekhina's Presence of
full Light, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">49 Gates of our emotions and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> flow through the heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from the Source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genesis 2:10 A river
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Psalm 46:4 There is a River
whose streams make glad the City of G*d. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Psalm 23:2 He makes me lie
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<b><span style="color: #0d3f81;">Water
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>There is no water except Torah</i>.
Bava Kama 17A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>O, all who are thirsty,
come for water.</i>" Isaiah 55:1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://count-the-omer.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #5d008b; text-decoration: none;">http://count-the-omer.blogspot.com/</span></b></a><span style="color: #5b2d15; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Heart</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">silk, salt painting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by </span> Joy Krauthammer ©</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>G*d Loves Me</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Outlining a radiant heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and wildly brushing layers of color onto silk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">is satisfying for me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">add surprise and a magical marbling finale.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With a bit of a broken heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I dance on silk, knowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Joy Krauthammer</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">G*d Loves You</span></b></div>
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by Joy Krauthammer</div>
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Grieving</div>
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when my husband, z'l, had died</div>
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after lengthy life-support,</div>
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and after I had served for years</div>
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as Caregiver Angel Warrior,</div>
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although surrounded by friends. </div>
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My beloved Jerusalem rebbe Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen, z'l, said to me,</div>
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"<span style="color: #0042aa; font-family: Georgia;"><b>G*d loves you</b>.</span>"</div>
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I painted these words</div>
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and hung them on my wall where I work.</div>
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I felt loved and healed,</div>
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no longer alone,</div>
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accepting this wisdom,</div>
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and have shared the thought</div>
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"G*d loves you"</div>
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with others during my Bikkur Cholim / visiting the sick experiences.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Creative Soul</b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> site "</span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #7b219f;">ART FOR THE SOUL, Jewish Artists Reflect</span></b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">". </span></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.chabad.org/blogs/blog_cdo/aid/2231188/jewish/G-d-Loves-You.htm">http://www.chabad.org/blogs/blog_cdo/aid/2231188/jewish/G-d-Loves-You.htm</a></span></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="color: #4d22b3;">A Kol ALEPH Feature: Words to Inspire</span></b></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><span style="color: #4d22b3;">June 5, 2013 issue</span></b></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="color: #450e59; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"This lovely bit of poetry by Joy Krauthammer inspired us when we had a long day at the office!"</i></span></span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #450e59;"><b><a href="http://kolaleph.org/2013/06/05/kol-aleph-presents-words-to-inspire/">http://kolaleph.org/2013/06/05/kol-aleph-presents-words-to-inspire/</a></b></span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #450e59;">More on </span><span style="color: red;">HEART</span><span style="color: #450e59;">:</span></b><br />
<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2009/12/published-art.html">http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2009/12/published-art.html</a></b></div>
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JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-44830504612277397982013-03-09T21:15:00.000-08:002014-02-03T19:34:43.872-08:00Artist of Life<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.45098); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; text-align: -webkit-center;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">My life as art </span></span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">comes from my heART. </span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">It beats as a drum </span></span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">and it is open </span></span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">and flows in abunDance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18px;">It is open to you. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;">It is open to Oneness. </span></span><br />
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JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-39085453920376912262013-03-08T13:03:00.000-08:002014-01-08T07:48:00.898-08:00Raindrops<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>RAINDROPS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">my joy is delicate and expansive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Raindrops dangle from flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dazzling, translucent gems.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Each a crystal of delight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They hang and don't fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sun shines through the gems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Drops sparkle on tubular red flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A circus of joy-drops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I dance and sing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sitting on green leaves of rose bush </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">raindrops make their presence known. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They don't fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gently, I shake down the drops</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">off favorite Double Delight rose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to lift its heavy wet head.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Come back, Rose".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reaching high, standing beneath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">laden boughs of a citrus tree,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I carefully tug at the round, full fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to receive from the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I pluck the fattest golden grapefruit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">first harvest of the season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Ah</i>, so juicy and delicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you, G*d.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Over 33 years ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I planted citrus trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Shaking the branch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I release the sun-lit crystals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hanging from the fruit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">raindrops fall on me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My body accepts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">the gift of falling fresh raindrops on my skin,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Ah</i>, a delight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Baruch Hashem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So filled with true joy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The glorious raindrop day ended not with more rain where I live, but with a </span><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">r </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">a </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">i </span><span style="color: #f1c232;">n </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #e69138;">b </span></b><b><span style="color: red;">o </span></b><b><span style="color: #741b47;">w</span></b>! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When the sun appeared I hoped I'd see G*d's miracle, and went outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From the other end of the Valley in the Eastern sky where I could see a partial rainbow, friend Suzanne called to say she saw a full rainbow and hailstones! She remembered to call me with rainbow alert! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On the phone, we share the blesSing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For more Garden of Joy photos:</span><br />
<a href="http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/"><b>http://joys-poems.blogspot.com</b></a><br />
<a href="http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2013/03/mornings-joy-filled-deep-delights.html"><b>http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/2013/03/mornings-joy-filled-deep-delights.html</b></a></div>
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Rainbow Eastern sky toward sunset time</div>
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On this day when a friend is not improving in an oncology unit in Jerusalem, I send the strength of the birds to Yoram ben Bella Miriam, and wish him a <i>Refuah Shleymah</i>. - Joy Krauthammer<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">then quickly return</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to face East</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and the rising sun.</span></div>
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only days later, Yoram left us on Shabbat, surrounded by family</div>
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and was buried the next day on Purim.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>JOY Krauthammer, MBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08720282712169644162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163248833098241282.post-41538236059516925902013-02-03T15:15:00.000-08:002016-01-24T13:32:22.517-08:00MANNA FROM HEAVEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><strong>MANNA from HEAVEN</strong></span><br />
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<em>"They will sit, each person under his vine and under his fig tree, and none will make them afraid, for the mouth of the Compassionate One, G*d of the hosts of Creation, has spoken." (Micah 4:4) </em><br />
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<em>"Torah compares to a fig tree; Figs on a tree do not ripen all at once, but a little each day. Therefore, one keeps finding new figs in the tree each day. So too with Torah: The more one studies each day, the more knowledge and wisdom one finds." (Eruvin 54a) </em><br />
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<em>"In that day (of Torah and peace)...everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree." (Zechariah 3:10) </em><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Manna From Heaven</b></span><br />
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by<strong> Joy Krauthammer</strong><br />
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With every breath, <br />
with every taste, <br />
with all my senses, <br />
gratitude I have and give thanks <br />
as I discover miracles <br />
waiting for me this morning. <br />
I laugh with glee <br />
as I find Your babies <br />
in Your magical garden that I tend. <br />
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Your treasures are strange: <br />
firm, shiny, smooth, thick-shelled, purple <br />
Passion Fruits! <br />
Their ripened, wrinkled, rumpled rinds, deflating <br />
from the dense leafy tendrilled vines <br />
thirty feet wide and my height, <br />
fallen to the ground! <br />
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I bend, praise You, lower my knees, <br />
drop to the earth <br />
to gather the precious, egg-shaped bounty, protecting <br />
intensely tart tasting, succulent, <br />
transparent, glowing golden sacs, placentas. <br />
Each envelops a small, crunchy black seed. <br />
Hundreds matured, concealed <br />
and encased in a cavity. <br />
Each attached to tissue-thin white membrane. <br />
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With care, drops of juice should not spill, <br />
I quickly cut open one rounded passion fruit <br />
revealed for my pleasure. <br />
I make the blessing, <br />
ingest Your blessings, <br />
Giver of Life, <br />
this summer season. <br />
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Clustered all the way from Gan Eden <br />
beneath giant green leaves, <br />
Figs, when plucked, <br />
exude white sap. <br />
Tender, large, luscious, plump, purple, fresh figs, <br />
symbol of Torah <br />
birthed to enjoy through and through. <br />
In bliss, I lift each sweet sensuous one <br />
up to You. <br />
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Figs on the tree, I bequeath <br />
for G*d's other creatures, <br />
as Boaz did for Ruth, the Moabitess, <br />
to glean and feast in joy. <br />
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We taste the mysterious, mystical treasure, <br />
delicate, dry skin and moist flesh, <br />
ripe, bursting forth magenta insides, <br />
awesome to behold, satisfied <br />
I release from the fruit<br />
holy sparks of life. <br />
I can feel them twinkle <br />
in my mouth and travel within me. <br />
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The blesSings of Your Passion and Fig, <br />
I share today with a bride and groom <br />
under their wedding canopy. <br />
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Manna From Heaven reprinted from "<strong>The Deronda Review</strong>" Vol. 1 No. 2 - Spring-Summer 2008<br />
<a href="http://www.pointandcircumference.com/">http://www.pointandcircumference.com/</a><br />
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The Jewish Woman 2008<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/11715/jewish/Krauthammer-Joy.htm">http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/11715/jewish/Krauthammer-Joy.htm</a></strong><br />
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More Passion Fruit found in:<br />
<a href="http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2009/05/passion-flower-returns-as-first-love.html"><b>http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2009/05/passion-flower-returns-as-first-love.html</b></a><br />
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<strong>Joy Krauthammer</strong>, MBA is a poet, percussionist, sound healer, and gardener living in Porter Ranch, CA. <br />
One of Joy's favorite JOY topics to teach is "Simchat Chochmah ~ Baby Boomer Joy of Wisdom".<br />
The fig is a perfect representation for Simchat Chochmah as it is likened to Torah and the Joy of Wisdom.<br />
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Enjoy my devotion of </div>
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<a href="http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/hummingbird-on-fig-tree.html">http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/hummingbird-on-fig-tree.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html">http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/08/haiku-fig-etiquette.html">http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/08/haiku-fig-etiquette.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/08/gds-fig-tree-parshat-ki-tavo-moses.html">http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/08/gds-fig-tree-parshat-ki-tavo-moses.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm" style="line-height: normal;">http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm</a></div>
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