This was beautiful Maya. It triggered the longing in me for being held and cared for, when we were kids- when you said “How as adults, we suddenly have the responsibility to create the life we want to live. We choose how our houses look and feel, if there’s music playing or not. If we have laughter and lightness. Everything becomes conscious,” I immediately felt fear well up inside of me, overwhelmed, and scared because it seems so daunting and lonely. But like you said, small conscious actions to create community, 1 by 1, growing our tables each year, it’s won’t be that way. Life won’t be spent alone if we take the steps to build our families and bring our people together over time rather than never taking any steps towards creating that life due to fear, shying away from conscious pursuit
This is so lovely - I am so happy to have met you this week. Though in a different stage of life, I resonated with so so much of what you wrote. Looking forward to seeing pics of that puppy. And great job on that matzo ball soup!
Oh wow, this brought me to tears! Thank you for sharing these pesach reflections 🩷🩷🩷 and yasher koach on leading your own seder!
This was beautiful Maya. It triggered the longing in me for being held and cared for, when we were kids- when you said “How as adults, we suddenly have the responsibility to create the life we want to live. We choose how our houses look and feel, if there’s music playing or not. If we have laughter and lightness. Everything becomes conscious,” I immediately felt fear well up inside of me, overwhelmed, and scared because it seems so daunting and lonely. But like you said, small conscious actions to create community, 1 by 1, growing our tables each year, it’s won’t be that way. Life won’t be spent alone if we take the steps to build our families and bring our people together over time rather than never taking any steps towards creating that life due to fear, shying away from conscious pursuit
This is so lovely - I am so happy to have met you this week. Though in a different stage of life, I resonated with so so much of what you wrote. Looking forward to seeing pics of that puppy. And great job on that matzo ball soup!