Collections of Thoughts and Poetry

#wordshavewings #congki #kehillathisrael #morningminyan On this page is the speech that I gave this morning at Kehillath Israel. The synagogue highlighted Words Have Wings and I reviewed the story of this blog which is intertwined with the synagogue and the opportunities that were given to me to write poetry. The speech puts a timeline on this blog and how it began and how it evolved. ***** It’s national poetry month and maybe that’s why I’m here this morning! My name is Lea

#wordshavewings #published #morningminyan #KImorningminyan #abookpublished #poetry #parshathashavuah Hello Everyone, This is a brief post to announce that a full year's worth of my Parsha Poetry has been published into a book called (what else?) Words Have Wings! The book was most generously published and sponsored by the morning minyan at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline, where I have been reading a weekly poem now since August, 2020. All of the poems are here on t

#thememoryroom #covid #congregationkehillathisrael #ki #morningminyan #memory #buildingcommunity #memories #sharingmemories As I have written before, during the pandemic I began to kaddish at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline. In April of 2020 I began to frequent the morning minyan and I found that it was a special place. It felt home grown and what was particularly interesting to me was the organic construction of the minyan. Each morning different people led the

#parshah #thanswerisnotinthesky #theanswerisnotinthesea #theanswerisinfrontofyournose #overtherainbow #dorothy #thewizardofoz #thewiz #thetinman #thescarecrow #thecowardlylion #morningminyan #zoomminyan #nitztavim #elul I continue to give occasional D'var Torahs at our KI Zoom morning minyan. This one is on Parshat Nitzavim. The Parshah is actually a double Parshah, with Va'Yelech, but this little piece is on just a few P'sukim from Nitzavim. כִּ֚י הַמִּצְוָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את אֲשׁ