Tag Archives: Mood: Hopeful

STLT#219, O Hear, My People

I am writing this from the dining room of a sweet, retired director of religious education who has provided home hospitality for me and colleague Amy Zucker Morgenstern in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where yesterday we celebrated the installation of Diana McLean. It’s entirely possible the sweetness of this woman, and of Amy, and of Diana, and …

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STLT#146, Soon the Day Will Arrive

I was hoping Jacqui James would bail me out today. I was really hoping there would be some long explanation of the origins of this song – that the lyricist, Ehud Manor, had written this in response to a particular moment/tragedy/event that I could expand upon, or that the composer, Nurit Hirsch, had discovered an …

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