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Leann Shamash

Jan 20, 2021
5 min

Nine Women

#8women #eightwomen #pandemic #acrossgenerations #sharingourlives For the past number of months I have been working on a project called Nine Women. The project started with nine women, each representing a different decade of life. A few months ago one of the women pulled out, so we are eight women. Each of us has been documenting our lives over the past few months. We have taken photographs of the small events that make up our lives, created reflective pieces about what we

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Leann Shamash

Nov 26, 2020
3 min

Parsha Poetry

Post 101-Gratitude

#post101 #wordshavewings #sayingkaddish #covid19 #pandemic #whathappened #adiary #awaytoremember #thememoryroom #zoomroom Here we are at Post 101 which I am writing on Thanksgiving, a day of gratitude. It's been a life changing nine months since I began writing this blog. So much has changed, but here we are at Thanksgiving, another milestone day of the year, a day about gratitude. I try to express gratitude frequently and to be mindful about what we have. I have been feel

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Leann Shamash

Nov 18, 2020
3 min

Holidays

A Memory

#amemory #dayspast #daysthatwillcomeagain #covid19 #pandemic #backtonormal #remembering A Memory: This memory might be yours or it might be mine. It's a memory we all share in some way and something to look forward to someday soon. I'm putting it down in words here on this blog so someday when we are back doing the things we used to do without even a thought, I will come back to this and not take movement and getting out for granted as I may have in the past. It was about a

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Leann Shamash

May 12, 2020
2 min

things we count during covid-19

#oneis #twois #countone #counttwo #covid19 #livingduringcorona #sayingkaddish #mothersanddaughters #quarantine #counting #6feetapart #quarantine #pandemic #fever #xoygen #heartbeats #pulse #covidpoetry #ourpresident #pressconferences #wordshavewings #daysofquarantine #takingyourtemperature #oximeter Days of quarantine Weeks of quarantine Months of quarantine Years of quarantine Record the numbers for the historical record Remember these numbers in the history books 2020 1918

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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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