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Tag: forgiveness

forgiveness/politics/words/writing

Last Night’s Writing Class

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

we talked about forgiveness women in the room all did time called it the Injustice System 139 years the cumulative number for years they’d been in jail co...

choices/hope/meditation/prayers

A Few People Wrote This Week and Asked

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Is There Anyone We Shouldn’t Forgive?   I don’t know Big Answers.  Never did.  I haven’t studied theology philosophy either or tenants of...

About Me/family/Jews/People/prayers

Yom Kippur is Over, and Forgiveness

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

(I’ve written many forgiveness poems. )     Forgive me because I am not usually the person I would like to be don’t take the high road oft...

holidays/hope/prayers/TRUE

A Prayer to Forgive

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

These days, these unholy holy days, warm, maybe too warm, these days of awe when we consider, when we think about our lives no matter what we know or believe, t...

About Me/body parts/Getting Older/Poetry/prayers

Going to the Eye Doctor and My Prescription

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

I’ve known him over 40 years not until yesterday did he tell me his longtime partner best friend from school charming funny he was a gonIf yiddish word fo...

prayers

Forgiving and Joachim Phoenix

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

I hold on.  Haven’t had the easiest time forgiving what happened forgiving or what didn’t but now that I am in another part of life when I see peopl...

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