by Ani Tuzman | Nov 12, 2023 | Children as Teachers |
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...
by Ani Tuzman | Sep 23, 2023 | Angels on the Clothesline, Children as Teachers, Read by Ani |
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....
by Ani Tuzman | Apr 23, 2023 | Children as Teachers, Harvesting Love, Presence |
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...
by Ani Tuzman | Oct 8, 2022 | Children as Teachers, Harvesting Love, Presence |
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...
by Ani Tuzman | Aug 24, 2022 | Children as Teachers, Presence |
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...