by Havi Brooks | Nov 14, 2012 | stuff I think about
In the home I grew up in, wordplay (emphasis on punnery) was the primary form of communication. At some point, at the age of oh, maybe fifteen, it suddenly dawned on me that other people, ones who are not related to me, have conversations over dinner. Weird, right?...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 1, 2012 | stuff I think about
Somehow, astonishingly, it is the time to passage between months again. I’m not sure how that happened. I am taking a deep breath and invoking all the superpowers of easy transitions. Okay! Exit and entry. Passaging out and passaging in. Let’s see where...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 6, 2012 | stuff I think about
It’s time to say hello to September, isn’t it. I have been avoiding this. Surprise! Mostly because September means the chagim: all the complicated Jewish holidays and the New Year. The cheshbon nefesh (literally: soul accounting) that goes along with that....
by Havi Brooks | Aug 7, 2012 | stuff I think about
Whenever I am at the bus stop, I remember that its secret name is bus shelter. And then I whisper: SHELTER. I fill up on shelter. I breathe it in, as a quality that lives somewhere inside of me and is sparked by this moment of remembering it. Collarbone lungs. Wally...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 1, 2012 | stuff I think about
Hmm. I do not remember when this was. Twelve years ago? That seems about right. Summer. On the beach. Maybe 6pm, going on 7. Warm, sun-drenched. But not heat in the way that afternoon is heat. Sitting in the sand. Watching the water. The best water, because this is...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 24, 2012 | stuff I think about
A small and important thing I need to say today. You do not have to take on the sadness of the world. Oh, dear heart. You do not have to take on the sadness of the world. You just don’t. You don’t need to carry it. You don’t need to hold it....
