Saving a Forgotten Synagogue in Guldental

Saving a Forgotten Synagogue in Guldental

The Storehouse You might not even notice the Guldental synagogue if you walk or drive by. From the road, from the pavement, it just looks like some kind of storage building. Only if you took the time to walk around, would you notice the arched windows, and the...

The First Kindertransport Exhibition in Berlin

Academics in the School of Arts and Humanities have recently opened a new Kindertransport exhibition, ‘At the End of the Tunnel’, in Berlin. The outdoor exhibition is the first Kindertransport exhibition ever to show in Berlin, and the first in Germany to present the...

Learning to See Again

Have words in a book ever jumped out and hit you between the eyes? That was my experience this morning while reading, Learning to See Again, Chapter 2 of Only the Lover Sings, Art & Contemplation, written in 1952. “Man’s ability to see is in decline… The...

Life Adjustments

June 14, 2012 About that visit to Baltimore in October 2005, just after my 65th birthday… here are notes I made on the flight back to Phoenix.  I have kept them, written in my own hand, in my prayer journal ever since, and have prayed through them countless times:...

Beginning to Write

June 13, 2012 Today I am beginning to write.  It is not as though I have never written; I have been writing for decades.  But today is different.   Hanna and I are beginning our second quarter quiet week at Santa Rita Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the high desert...