I Rememberd In The Night Your Name

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I was feeling grateful for the amazing transformation the great wave of gratitude that settled around my heart pulsed bigger and bigger but who was i thanking?

When the hearth overflows With gratitude then song is the natural response.Varda Branfman's essays and poems are essentially songs that celebrate her wonder and thankfulness at finding the answer to her question in the eyes of her children in the air of Jerusalem in an unused silver spice box in the silence of her old world grandmother

If there is any darkness in these stories or memories it is only as a pathway to experience the light of our higher selves. It is all one tapestry of light whether she is swimming in a glacial lake saying psalms in an old Jerusalem synagogue under threat of war or witnessing the breathtaking dance of a 70 year old grandmother at a Jewish wedding she holds out the possibility of an exhilarating wakefulness make yourself a shore hold nothing back and she shares a vision of the peace and wholeness to be found in returning yo our higher selves.