Author: humanlexi
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A Trip to the ENT
Inspired by my most recent medical experienced, and informed by many over the years.
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What’s New
What’s new with you, she asks. I’m at peace now, I tell her. I’ve given up, No more archive digging, enough staring at the dangling crystal ball. This moment is my rapture. Rapture? How…Christian. No, no, no; salvation is universally desired. So, what changed? You know, it’s not pleasant to desire those things which I…
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DISCOVERING ORTHODOXY, HALACHA, AND MYSELF
What began with Descartes and the moon led me somewhere magical This essay was originally published in 18Forty “Jews are moon people,” my friend said as we strolled through Gainesville’s verdant swamp one Autumn night. She was not lecturing me on the mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh but rather on the “witchiness” of Torah. For those…
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Laughing through the chaos: When nothing goes according to plan
Subscribe here for upcoming posts. May 19th: I booked an impromptu trip to Israel. I had been daydreaming about ancient streets and the palpable holiness of Jerusalem. My plan was to spend the upcoming holiday of Shavuot in Jerusalem, then go to Tzfat for a hiking and mysticism program. I found a Delta itinerary and…
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Interlude: Reflections in Holiness
From a former ‘Bad Girl’ Before you read, please subscribe on the new platform here. Springtime cuts me yearly like a sharpened knife. Summer approaches, my insides spill out like slithery black papaya seeds and I have nowhere to hide. Miami’s atmosphere grays, bloats and relinquishes rain speedily;the air is fuller and the streets are…
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Funny How Brief a Year is
“While I packed my clothes, books, and kitchen supplies – a friend said ‘if you break his heart, he gets to keep the furniture’ – Gilmore Girls played in the background and cold air rushed through the crack I had left in the porch door.”
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How to Make Your World a Garden
As any human knows, our animal souls have a way of taking over. We become distracted, obsessed with matters like politics or gossip. Eating junk food, prioritizing pleasure over wellbeing.
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Transforming Cheshvan
First published on https://www.breathandsoul.net/jewish-yoga-blog/transforming-cheshvan How to protect yourself from the world: build an ark. When the world is flooded with the chaos of 24/7 news channels broadcasting the latest tragic event, people are unfriendly in the streets, and nothing seems to go “right,” build an ark. Not one that houses couples of animals, but one…
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The End of Chaos
“The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?” There’ve been big events worldwide and today I head to Miami for the first time in 11 months. Last time I was home, my experience in using the word “pandemic” had been when my debate…
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On Preciousness
I listen to rainfall and hear its tracks, as it meets the metal of my balcony and makes its way down gutters and onto pavement. It’s been raining since, at the very least, the dead early hours of the morning. Tempted to create or work, I remind myself it’s four o’clock on a Sunday morning.…
Lexi Lampner 