If I Had Three Wishes

The first came easily -- for Mani's health to be 100% restored. The others, though, I thought long and hard about as I drove south through farmland and evening light.

Real Life, Resistance, Jewish LifeJena SchwartzJuly 13, 2019slavery, suffering, resistance, Jewish, Jews, diaspora, exile, refugees, Three Wishes, lineage, ancestor, Holocaust, climate change, Immigration, Justice Comment

Poetry, Politics, and Privilege

I am a bundle of fear and rage and love and confusion. I went for a run this morning, and I looked at each person’s face I passed by. A delivery guy. An older gentleman walking his dog. A woman with a briefcase waiting for the light. A man smoking a cigarette on a bench. A child watching in awe as the firetruck backed out of the station, holding his grandfather’s hand. I ached.

ResistanceJena SchwartzJuly 21, 2017politics, facebook, trump, voting, election, resistance, swastika, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, twitter, tweet, sociopath, narcissistic, greed, democratic ideas, mother, parenting, poet, jewish, climate changeComment

Underwear, Avocado, and Being Loved Inside the Hunger and the Mess

Give me this life where I don’t cringe at the sight of my own flesh or wish I were someone else, and where I am not only tolerated but loved most of all, most adored, in my hunger, in my mess, in my half-naked sandal-wearing ruined beauty.

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