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Stranger in a Strange Land: Israel, Pt. 1
When I left Israel in April, everyone told me I would be processing it for months, even years. I didn’t want to believe them. I wanted it to be a nice tidy package by the end of summer: here’s what I learned, here’s how I grew, my three-point essay, my expert reflections on the conflict.…
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on writing
Brand-new satin smooth paper pad in one hand, firm rod of pen in the other: This is who I want to be, and want is a word that starts too weak and ends too scant For this phototropic force bending my very bones to the light of words, wonderful words. I hold words in too…
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once on a summer mountain
Hey friends! It’s summer, even if right now in New Jersey it feels more like mid-spring (fine by me: keep the oppressive heat away as long as possible). I figured this was a good time to share a poem I wrote about a summer a few years ago when my family and I were adventuring…