kaddish in two-part harmony
A conversation between an anthropologist and a musician along with a growing virtual minyan, on themes of death and dying, grief, ritual, and the interplay between music and words.about
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a kaddish of thanksgiving for failed relationships
Is it wrong to have fun writing a kaddish? This is a kaddish of Thanksgiving for failed relationships, and a toast to an almost-Dad-in-law. I can hear the ice clinking in our glasses even now. Continue reading
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Tagged aging, alcoholism, aphasia, bourbon, chardonnay, sexism, WASPs, whisky, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
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daily kaddish: losing those who were already lost
Tonight’s Kaddish contemplates the loss of those we’ve already lost—when people who were already lost to us are lost again, finally, to death. Continue reading
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Tagged alcoholism, dementia, disinheritance, divorce, estrangement
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