Happy New Year, Trees

Some Jewish Joy in times of tsuris, and a poem in progress to celebrate trees! Plus opportunities for you to write with me.

Each bit of research I turn up as I dig into Sarah’s story shifts the ground of my understanding of the Bible, Judaism, and my role as a poet. So too has the story continued to shift for me as I peer into it again through the lens of current events and the history that has led up to them.

It’s been an intense, challenging, heartbreaking, and soul-shaking…