Looking down on the land of oppression / from my vantage point in the land of dreams.

The second part of an article I wrote for a prominent Orthodox Jewish publication in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Do you really want to go home again?

You’ve just been put in touch with creation, something so elemental and rare / and its sheer emotional power is almost too much to bear.

Summer vacation rolled in quietly, but it was a day I’d always remember.