Leann Shamash
A Few Updates on Irma G and The Hat Project
#irmag #mothersanddaughters #hats #thehatproject #aginggracefully #olderwomen #womenoverninety #beauty #elderly #seeing #findingthebeauty...
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Leann Shamash
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
Lipstick
#lipstick #mom #irmag #makeup #talmud #masechetmoedkatan #moedkatan #growingold #dementia For those who haven't followed this blog for...
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Leann Shamash
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
The Summer Orchestra
#crickets #therearecricketshidinginthegrass #irmag #Today Long ago, my mother sang a song to me, to my brothers and then to her...
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Leann Shamash
- Dec 17, 2020
- 3 min
Drawing Irma G
#drawingirma #irmag #mom #drawing #painting #portraits #essence #sharingstories #irmag #irmag #hats #thehatproject And so the eleven...
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Leann Shamash
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
Today You Would Have Been 97
#mothersanddaughters #irmag #thehatproject #acenturyofhats #agingwomen #thebeautyofaging #century #hats #salmagundi #hebrewseniorlife...
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Leann Shamash
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4 min
The Maze of Daf Yomi
#dafyomi #berakhot #masechetberakhot #fallingbehind #blessings #blessingsoverbread #shema #shmonaesrei #18benedictions #blessingfood...
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Leann Shamash
- Apr 26, 2020
- 4 min
A Final Bath- Thank You
#schwartzrounds #rememberingmom #irmag #hebrewseniorlife #thefalls #memorycare #healthcareworkers #healthcare #cnas...
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Leann Shamash
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
The Dance of Prayer (part one)
#prayer #openyourhands #openyourheart #thedanceofprayer #sayingkaddish #kaddish #africandance #sufidance #hassidicdance...
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Leann Shamash
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
A Collection of Miracles: Dayeinu (It Would Have Been Enough For Us)
#miracles #covid19 #dayeinu #wemakemiracles #gratitude #acollectionofmiracles #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish #irmag #mothersanddaughters...
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Leann Shamash
- Apr 5, 2020
- 3 min
The Dissonant Music of Prayer
#prayer #covid19 #chazzan #cantor #davening #shaliachtzibbur #leadingthecongregation #whatittakes #beautifulvoice #distortions ...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
A Poem For Freedom: Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Nisan Month of awakening Of red tulips Yellow forsythia Blue skies Grays turn to greens Nisan Month of new life Plants flex their muscles...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 26, 2020
- 3 min
The Value of Time- "The Early Bird Catches the Worm"
#time #sevenoclock #eightoclock #wakeup #timetowakeup #covid #socialdistancing #morningprayer #sayingkaddish #kaddish #irmag...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Welcome to Overland Park, Kansas-I made a minyan!
#overlandparkkansas #overlandpark #kansas #sayingkaddish #irmag #prayer #covid19 #shacharit #travelingwithoutmoving #internettravels...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 6, 2020
- 1 min
The Shape of Silence
#silence #poetry #kaddish #sayingkaddish #rememberingmom #amida #morningprayer #sephardicjews #irmag #irma #wordshavewings I usually...
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Leann Shamash
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
It's All About The Excuses
Mom is gone and saying kaddish looms (maybe that is not the right word...it sounds so negative) for the year to come. Since dad passed...
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Leann Shamash
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
Three Orphans Sitting on a Bench-February 3, 2020
I am 63 Barry is 62 Paul is 59. We sit on a bench following morning minyan. Heads bowed. Hands on our laps We are orphans now. We have...
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Welcome to "Words Have Wings."
During the year following the death of a parent it is their children's responsibility to say the kaddish. This blog is a series of reflections while saying the kaddish for my late mother, Irma Gershkowitz.
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