Felt a tinge of longing, while connecting by pelephone with the spiritual centre of this world, Winnipeg. That's how I feel, at times. That "chul", an acronym for "chutz la-aretz", or "outside of Israel" carries a vocabulary of prayer that includes a blessing for Israel. (I'm thinking about that evocative line in Joni Mitchell's Circle Game, "Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true".)
"Next Year in Jerusalem" has defined us for so many centuries. Is there an element of, "OK, now it's this year and we're here. Now what do we hope for?"? Is it the sheer weight of living here, that drains one of the hoping? I don't mean the weight of outside threats. These exist only if you have time to read the newspapers. Honest. Everyone I talk to is wrapped up in rent and taxes. Which brings me to the pictures I've shown above. Look at the salad. Look again. Can you see a saucy, cheeky martini glass? I never saw it, the whole night that I was working on the photo as a possible logo photo for Benino. And yet the martini glass has always been a kind of a trademark of ours. The subconscious is alert to so much that we miss. And so, in this time that seems so materialistic, so hereandnow, so lacking in Winnipeg Silkenwine spirituality, my spiritual cup is still overflowing with prayer and with song....they say the soul is always praying, even when we're not tuned to its channel. Maybe the heart is always singing, the feet are always dancing, and we are always in sweet and connected conversation with our moms and our dads and our sisters and our brothers. Maybe that's why the Shma begins, "Shma!" Listen!!!!! Tune in! You know about oneness and about the deeperness of things and about the triviality of the worries that separate you from other people and about the mainness of connection. Just listen, tap in, tune in, and you will see that your soul is constantly talking about the Important Thing. Even when you think you are alone.
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