Convergence, part 2

As the river that is a life – a library of tales, fables, myths, legends, poems and narratives of every description – approaches the ocean …

Persuasion

When humans want to make sense of something, we look for the familiar.

Noticing, part 3

Learning to see the same things other people see – but differently – requires space.

Witnesses

When we encounter the universe that is another person, we have a menu of choices of how to respond. Rabbi Ariel Burger observes two challenges with otherness, in the sense that it can be used either as a weapon or a barrier: “we fall into the trap of not listening, [or] we are overfamiliar and […]

The ninth symphony

n the last decade of his life, completely deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven created his Ninth Symphony.