Family Friday: Community
Shabbat Shalom! This morning as I get ready for my Shabbat to start in the evening, I am meditating on the value of community. I tried my best to write …
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Family Friday: Fallen Comrade
Shabbat Shalom! The summer of 2013 my cousin Weston set me up with an Instagram. I was turning 23 that summer, he had already turned 13 so I could count …
Family Friday: Out of Stillness
Shabbat Shalom from the lake! There is a spoken word song that is mostly life advice on my playlist entitled, “Be Kind to Yourself.” It tells me that “out of …
Family Friday: Hello In There at the Human Zoo
Shabbat Shalom! By the time this posts, I will hopefully be in my car headed to panhandle Nebraska to bring in my Shabbat. Like many weeks of COVID-19, this has …
Family Friday: Point, Click, Shoot
I am constantly grateful that Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard took up the hobby of photography. Her images of the prairie, the monuments she placed, her home, and friends …
Family Friday: Have Garden–Will Grow
Have Garden — Will Grow Kylie Louise McCormick I. I dug my heel into the poppies, mistaking them for thistles. The year after that, they couldn’t stop GROWING. I grew …
Family Friday: Pikachu Visits Wyoming
Shabbat shalom! I think that the most thoughtful person in my life happens to be a seven-year-old boy, my second-cousin, Reece. Despite living 747 miles apart from each other, Reece …
Family Friday: Pandemic Passover
Chag Sameach! “Why is this night different from all other nights?” I asked but the answer seemed obvious when I looked up at my cellphone holding my sister, her husband, …
Family Friday: The Singing Mailman
Shabbat HaGadol! The Great Shabbat! I hope this Shabbat lives up to its title as I hold all of those suffering from COVID-19 in prayer. It is certainly odd to …
Family Friday: Collaborating on Isolation 2020
Shabbat Shalom! Another surreal day social distancing with another song, or rather songs. When my sister Kelsey shared her “Isolation 2020” playlist with me it was 39 minutes long. As …