First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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Feeling the Love

October 7, 2011 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I’m about to unplug my computer, and carbo-load, as I get ready for the holiest day of the Jewish year. The holiday begins at sunset, as does a 25 hour fast. I never understood it as a kid, but now I find it to be a meaningful spiritual experience, and political too. When I feel hunger pangs during the course of this specified time period, it helps to think about those who walk around hungry without end. It makes me grateful, and energizes me to work for a more equitable world.

Sculpture by Robert Indiana, from Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

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