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Michael Shermer, in his book "Believing Brains", speaks of "patternicity": the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data; and "agenticity": the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, ... Read more »
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Still thinking about the desert horizon and the translucency of our attempts to glimpse the spirituality that surrounds us like colors in the light spectrum our eyes can't quite see. Winter is ending in the desert...
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This is a commissioned gift for a lovely couple who are getting married in June. I am trying to capture the hope of God's protection and strength.
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...trying to capture the sense that something beyond us exists and that unless we are looking spiritually (not just with our two eyes), we can't see it.
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Contemplating the bowl of the heavens reflected on the surface of the pool.
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Still trying to express the idea of the sense of other worlds at the edges of our consciousness. I envision these glimpses as transparent hints of angels.
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A prayer for protection.
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From my favorite part of the Torah, the imagery around Jacob, here he is told to go to Beth-El (Jerusalem). You can see him in the distance, near the Bamot (high places) usually a site of foreign worship like a Ziggurat. Beth-El is in the distance. ... Read more »
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There is a blessing to be recited upon seeing exceptionally strange looking people or animals, "Thank You G-d, Hashem, King of the universe for making the creatures different." Thus we acknowledge the diversity in the world. This painting i ... Read more »
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She looks sort of witchy, I guess as a result of all of the young adult fiction about witches I hereby confess I passed some time reading last summer. Ancient philosophers talk about visionary mysticism, the simplest kind, where one has visions of Go ... Read more »
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From the opening of Genesis when everything was potential: ...when the earth was astonishingly empty, with darkness upon the surface of the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the waters... . Gen. 1:2
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We shall sanctify Your Name in this world just as the angels sanctify It in heaven above.
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Time rushes past like fast waters, the wine waits on the table and we ask You for mercy.
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Michael Shermer, in his book "Believing Brains", speaks of "patternicity": the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data; and "agenticity": the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, ... Read more »
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For Lauren, who I love dearly.
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From the prayer book for Rosh Hashanah: "We beseech You, in the Holy Name that disseminates from the light of the upper chariot, which is included in its source...."
There is the Unit Circle, from Math Analysis, which is the ... Read more »
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The angel sits on the steps in the later afternoon. The sun keeps setting, we keep dancing and making music.
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Prayers in the desert at Rancho Mirage for my father during his bypass operation in November 2011. He came through it with flying colors. I love the desert in winter.
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Rebecca waits for Issac with Water. She knows the whole story.
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Blessed be He Who spoke and the world came into being.
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Protect us from our enemies, then and now.
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And she is waiting by the steps by the pool.