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Magic Eyelashes

On the front of the refrigerator hung a huge calendar, where Rachel could see it every time she opened the door to get a drink for herself or her 3 year old brother Daniel. When it had big red X’s crossing out the first five months of the year, Rachel knew it was time to [...]

Starbucks Robert

By now everyone has heard of the phrase “pay it forward,” or “random acts of kindness.” In the vernacular, it has come to mean basically doing a random act of kindness now that will lead to another random act of kindness later in a place called the future. Like donating blood to the Red Cross, [...]

Military-Industrial-Complex

My brother Moishe wondered out loud a lot and wasn’t shy about letting anyone know how he felt about anything. He told the entire family that I had sold out to the military-industrial complex. Law school had ended, I hadn’t passed the California Bar, the divorce was final, and we were living on $200 [...]

Essence of Human Relationships

Ram Dass tells a story about a man rowing on a lake high in the mountains in fog so thick you can’t see your fingers unless you hold them right in front of your eyes. While he is rowing, he runs into something, probably another boat. He starts yelling loudly, “Watch where you’re going. Can’t [...]

Dancing With Angels

Red is a color worn by others. Haven’t worn red since Howard left in ‘92 and I moved to back to Phoenix. So I haven’t a clue what made me buy a dark red Ralph Lauren shirt and tank top yesterday morning. Maybe it was the incredible sale at Dillards or I had to have [...]

Howard Hummingbird

There was a little boy who lived down the street from us when I was growing up that used to love to hang from tree limbs and anything else he could climb up. He would wrap his legs around a limb or a pole on a Jungle Jim hanging upside down so he [...]

1st Anniversary

One year! Happy Anniversary http://sarafryd.com. Not so hard to believe that a year has passed, though overwhelmed by the response to the words I have written on napkins, scraps of paper from the bottom of my purse, notebooks, backs of Walgreen’s receipts, Mead spiral notebooks, my wrist, and the palm of my hands with a [...]

A Library for Cracow

I belong to a Holocaust Survivors email list that travels around the globe online helping Survivors find other Survivors. More than six years ago I received an email about a young man who wanted to start a library in Cracow, Poland and needed help filling the shelves with Jewish books. Seems he was raised Christian to save his life. Finding out [...]

Rūmī

*With special thanks to Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, the Sufi poet (red) for his exquiste poem and Basia Or-Rafael for her teachings. Certainly it did not need my help (brown), though I added a few lines to it this morning.

Become the sky…
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape…
Walk…
Out like someone suddenly born again
Do it now…
Walk into colors – chartruese, [...]

God Will Save Me

*It is noted I did NOT write this story. I’ve heard many variations, nevertheless it is still a great story.

A very religious man who had followed God’s commandments his whole life found himself living in a house on the banks of a river that was rising. It was raining hard and all predictions were for [...]

The Girls Really Like This

Every time Aron called Phoenix from Detroit, he would share stories of his wealth, friends, and apartment on Nine Mile Road. Aronchik (Mom’s youngest sibling) eventually became a successful entrepreneur, though summer of 1964 he was still trying to figure out how to get his contractor’s license, tell his ex-wife they were divorced six months [...]

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