by Christina G. Waldman May 9, 2019 (updated August 21, 2019, January 20, 2020) What do bees have to do with Bacon? The cover illustration my publishers so aptly chose for Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand is from an illuminated manuscript, in Latin, from the 12th century, the Hortus Deliciarum (The …
First posted March 12, 2019. When my Grandma, Helen, died, she left behind a finished quilt top. I hadn’t even known it existed. No one else in the family seemed interested in it, fortunately, because I really wanted it. Grandma had stored it in a pillowcase, in a dark closet. …
A personal response to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Devarim (5773) – Tzedek: Justice and Compassion,” Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition, July 8, 2013, http://rabbisacks.org/devarim-tzedek-justice-and-compassion/. by Christina G. Waldman Revised March 25, 2019, May 6, 2020 In the captioned piece which I encourage you to read, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains that, in …
