Who won the election? That’s been the question of the week, one wrought with contestation, argument, and challenge.

OK. So, here we go – just a few days before the US election.

What is a commitment really? It typically involves dedicating ourselves in service of something “other” than ourselves, be that a goal, ideology, person, or project. Therefore, it is something that, by definition, limits our freedom….

How are you? How are we? How are your children? We ask these questions. They seem harder to answer than before. But they might just be more important than ever.

This week, I’ve been viewing the world through the lens of opposites. By definition, they exist in relation to one another.

My main area of reflection this week is a short one: data and statistics. More specifically, averages.

This week, I am going for something lighter: laughter. Humor is such an important aspect of our lives. It helps put things in perspective without making us feel bad. I feel fortunate to have so many friends that have easy access to humor and who use it frequently.

This week, I will focus on TIME. I believe that if we examine our relationship with time, we can find answers to most questions of justice, morality, equality, and happiness. One of my favorite sayings defines our current paradox: WE LIVE IN A SHORT-TERM WORLD WITH LONG-TERM PROBLEMS

This week I have been reading Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks new book. I have waited for it for months! I have referenced his work in prior blogs. And I am certain to do it again in the future. I believe him to be one of the more influential voices in my own soul.

This week, I’d like to raise something that is difficult for me to address. I both lack the professional training (law) and the cultural understanding (didn’t grow up here) to properly unpack this complicated topic.

This week I have been reflecting on how “stuck” we still are in Newtonian (vs Quantum) thinking. It’s time we let go of our over-simplified view of how life works. It causes so many problems. Living inside a narrative that is increasingly irrelevant is producing so much anxiety, fear, and frustration.

This week I was reminded of perhaps the most important few seconds we have. That instant between stimuli and response. It is at that moment we have a chance to decide who we want to be.

This week I want to reflect more on the idea of responsibility. Why is it, that most conversations you hear about responsibility are always about someone else’s responsibility? How can that be?

Today I want to reflect on the deeper meaning of a particular kind of gap. The gap between what we say and what we do.

This week I purposefully want to focus and direct my own (and hopefully your) attention to attention. Attention is yet another one of those “obvious” aspects of life that we pay too little attention too!

So many emotions running through my system this week. I feel every day like I am playing an emotional Wack-a-Mole game. You have all played the game at some amusement park.

Today I want to illuminate, elevate and celebrate our sanctuaries. The places where we find quiet, comfort, stillness, and safety.

Yesterday was the 4th of July. US Independence day. I must say it sent my soul in many different directions. Independence might not be the sentiment that most of us feel at this point in time as we are, to varying degrees, held hostage to a microscopic organism we don’t fully know, we can’t fully stop and we certainly prefer not to get. However…

I continue to do my thing. Trying to find and amplify the silver lining in this moment. And this week, I must confess, was not a good one. It was like chasing a soap in a bathtub. I kept feeling it, seeing it, but yet couldn’t quite catch it.

Happy Fathers Day to all Fathers AND Mothers. It does take two to have children! At least in some ways.