HARVESTING LOVE:
Finding Love in Unexpected (& Expected) Places
“Giving voice, communicating, is a sacred way to free love.”
Ani’s Harvesting Love blog is dedicated to releasing the energy of love into the world.
The blog’s purpose is also to treasure the gift of language, the power of giving voice. Read More
The Pause & The Alchemy of Love
Dear One, In "CATCHING STARS," one of the vignettes in my memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, the young me lies down in the grass looking up at the night sky. She finds it hard to keep singing, quieted by the immensity of the sky. Awe silences her until she finds her...
Living Prayer
Dear One, Recently, it was my honor to be invited to write something for the Albert and Amelia Ferst Interfaith Center newsletter. I was to keep in mind the theme of finding light in the darkness. The rest was up to me. I am happy to share with you what made its...
The Wisdom of Children
Dear One, I open with a post below that I shared on Facebook, inspired by finding my granddaughter' Sula's words spoken when she was six, written down by her mother and pinned to my refrigerator almost exactly two years ago. "What is the real meaning of...
With a full heart…
Hello, dear One, For the past two weeks, I have found myself crying often, mostly stunned into silence, at times brimming words, with questions, prayers, longing, or filled by the words of others, their grief, reflections, analyses, cautions, pleas. Every time...
Good enough? Really??
Dear One, I have a habit of never feeling like I am doing enough. Another form this habit takes is “I’m doing it wrong"—whatever it is. I know the roots of this in my childhood. I could never do enough to ease the suffering of my parents, who had endured and lost so...
“WHO BY DROWNING”
A Yom Kippur vignette from Angels on the Clothesline, A Memoir As a young daughter of Holocaust survivors, from the start of Rosh Hashanah until and through Yom Kippur, I thought obsessively about what fate would be my parents' and what fate for the rest of us. How...
Teachers of Love
Below is a piece I wrote (subsequently translated into Spanish) for "Memorias desde el Tugurio," an important book about communities of "squatters," shanty town dwellers, known in Colombia as 'tugurianos," and the rebel priest, Padre Vicente Mejia, who served them and...
Closer even than that. . .
The following is from an email to my Inner Circle. *Scroll down to read "OCEAN," and to listen to Ani read it to you. Dear One, This month, as the birth of Angels on the Clothesline, my memoir, approaches, I want to stay in closer touch with you. Harvesting...
This moment. The only moment.
Our teachers can be found everywhere if we pay attention. Recently, I had a spontaneous visitor who, like spring, is bursting with life. He came to my home with no agenda. But as is often the case when he visits, he inspired my awe. My visitor was two and half...
Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING is a vignette from my forthcoming memoir, Angels on the Clothesline. Publication April 2023.In Angels on the Clothesline, I bridge time to be the compassionate presence missing from my childhood. I witness the deeply painful experiences and the...
RECESS. Bullying and Resistance on a Playground
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Being bullied was a significant (to put in mildly) part of my childhood.Being bullied and shamed was my everyday experience in a public school where no one had ever known a Jew before. My hair was searched daily for...
Farmer Crow Teaches the Power of Now
The video is a wonderful invitation into the present moment, yours most likely without chickens in it. 😉 But we have plenty of other needs to tend and things pecking at us. Elouin's stillness, presence, patience and full-bodied being are gifts, not only for the...
The Art of Non-Attachment & Reveling in the Process
Elouin aka Dodo, as named by his brother, made me, Amani (who he calls Amami) a painting. This video reveals not only the joy of the process rather than focus on the product, it also is a delightful reflection on non-attachment. And all this from a two-year old master...
Celebrating Our Creativity
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. . . . Say yes quickly, if you know it, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe."~ RumiThis article was originally published in BODY MIND SPIRIT MAGAZINE in 1996. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IS ENTHRALLED...
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