591-599

Actions speak loudly
I believe too much in words
Words alone are weak

Pushing doesn't work
at least not in the long term
Yet you can't just sleep

Putting out fires
can create fires inside
when done all day long

My issues exist
yet they need not torture me,
my breath lets them know

They exist and yet
I can let the noises go
lower the volume

It is what it is
like so many chilled sayings
is not without truth

Communication
can bring out beautiful things
when you say things right

Is only sleep sleep?
I want to replicate sleep.
Does hypnosis count?

Oh to get gotten
like in those Ben Lee lyrics,
I've got songs that give

589-590

Flannery was square
so uncool that she was cool
seeing what we won't

Appelfed just wants
to find his way back to home;
that's where I connect

585-588

Circle me with light
that spreads about to others
Enlightening G-d

Amidst the rushing
sometimes I stop and just breathe
taking time to live

A friend of mine thinks
that I was once a yogi
in a former life

A rebbe of mine
said I should read Sidhartha
because i am him

579-584

On the day we're born
more light comes into the world
through our shining souls.

My Jewish birthday
is the thirteenth of Tishrei.
This makes me happy.

Birthdays are good days
to look back and look forward,
take stock of our days.

Friend, I am grateful
for your celebrating me
on my day of birth.

Anniversary
of the day that I was born
I should celebrate.

Not just a number
that's a lie that people say.
Every birthday counts

578

We need some answers
though we'll never have them all
Life's a long question

The forrests and trees
Each in their way await me
I'd better focus

Modeh Ani, me
The body part of me says
Thanks G-d, for the soul

575

Wrong girl wrong lobby
Dating is a bad hobby
Like rhyming haiku

574

Because of the snow
everything's off, all has changed
G-d bring back the warmth

A hair line fracture
in the family system
Another fall down.

572

Walking through a day
many angels pass my way
on hidden display

Prioritizing
what is really important
like writing this now

568-570

The Macabeats sing
as their colleague gets married
and takes center stage 

He's overcome much
always staying positive 
always with a smile 

Now he greets his wife
standing beneath their Chuppah
sparkling with joy

567

Friendship is funny
and not in a ha-ha way
when it's platonic

Because I'm stubborn
stubborn people grate on me;
they don't see I'm right.

The shade drifts down low
Reminding me that I know
The way that things go

I sigh that I sigh
wondering, why do I sigh
then I sigh, again

All seems so quiet
on the Facebook front but there's
an underbelly

560-562

And yet stress returns
and sucks me into routines
pulling me from me.

So I have to work
on taking space from my work.
Working on myself...

So I eat and sigh
alone and wondering why
Praying silently

Chained

I had forgotten
that I needed to move on
stuck in my routine

I was reminded
I wanted to move forward
and saw I was stuck

Being stuck gets old
yet is not without its charm
so there's a conflict

Once you come to see
you're not where you want to be
It's hard to stay blind

I see all the time
as time quickly wiggles by
I want to break through

554

Sometimes I misspeak
Like last night to a colleague
Now I'm losing sleep

I'm free to forget

Yet I choose to remember

Sometimes there's no choice

552

Follow the lights home
Ryan Adams sang in song
They will lead you home.

551

Adam and Chavah
used their judgement over G-d's
We've done it since then

550

We each have something
that the other doesn't have
We each stand alone

We're not placeholders
Human beings are much more
Step back, show respect

548

Sometimes I breathe out
and feel her anxiety,
my mother, myself

543 - 547

With a scrunched up face
he prays like he's 100
but he's 25

The pattern repeats
I say I want us to talk...
I'm afraid to talk

We pray for judges
like from once upon a time
started by Yitro

You won't send us out
empty handed from Your place
We know You listen

Rabi Akivah
entered and went out in peace
May we be so blessed