JoinedJanuary 4, 2016
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Rivki Silver wants to do all the things. In her creative endeavors, sometimes she feels more like a musician, spending time performing, composing, teaching, and, occasionally, making videos with dancing produce. Sometimes she feels more like a writer, typing pieces which can be found around the internet, and some on her blog, which she named before branding was a thing. Most (all?) of the time she is a wife, mother and community member, living in Cleveland with her husband and four children. Because this is an "about me" blurb, she feels compelled to include that she was a fellow in the 2016 Cleveland Jewish Arts and Culture Lab.
It's time to stop using modesty as a blanket excuse to avoid difficult conversations. The stakes are too high.
How can we ask G-d for forgiveness when we don't even grant it to ourselves?
Somewhere in a midrash it describes how during the plague of darkness the darkness was so thick that the Egyptians were unable to move around. That’s how I feel, spiritually. I feel like the darkness is so thick that I cannot move an inch.
There's a reason Thoreau got all inspired by nature.
For so many years I defined myself by standing out, by being iconoclastic. How did I become a person who wants to look like everyone else?
