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How Community Holds Us

How Community Holds Us

ALL of us are somewhere on a lifelong continuum of learning to live with more compassion, grace, courage, honesty, and balance.

Jewish Life, CommunityJena SchwartzSeptember 4, 2022Comment

Falling Forward: On Change, Choice, and Patience

Falling Forward: On Change, Choice, and Patience

But what if what's to come will carry its own surprises and wonders – as it reliably has in the past?

Observations, Real LifeJena SchwartzSeptember 1, 2022 Comment

Until September

Until September

Real Life, CommunityJena SchwartzJuly 29, 2022August breakComment

Three Principles of Practice

Three Principles of Practice

Creative ProcessJena SchwartzJuly 22, 2022Comment

Triptych for Hard Times

Triptych for Hard Times

Acceptance does not mean resignation; on the contrary, it’s where we return to ourselves.

Real LifeJena SchwartzJune 29, 2022Zen, buddhistComment

Solstice Prayer

Solstice Prayer

PoetryJena SchwartzJune 22, 2022Solstice, light, love and light, Love, God, daily prayer, prayer, PrayerComment

All in a Day

All in a Day

We keep on making the best of it.

Real Life, PoetryJena SchwartzJune 10, 2022Kay RyanComment

Thin Skin

Thin Skin

Real LifeJena SchwartzJune 2, 2022Memoir, memoir, Memory, memory, women's bodies, birth, eating disorder, body image Comments

We Don't Need to Wonder

We Don't Need to Wonder

How are we not to break?

ResistanceJena SchwartzMay 31, 2022gun laws, violence, white supremacy, white privilege, Whitenes, misogyny, patriarchy, wholeness, HealingComment

Norm!al {a poem}

Norm!al {a poem}

why normal is the goal I don't know

PoetryJena SchwartzMay 24, 2022LGBTQIA+, call me by your name, neurodivergent, Poetry, normalComment

Sleeve

Sleeve

Since last July, my right arm has become a canvas.

Creative ProcessJena SchwartzMay 15, 2022Tattoos, Becoming, symbolismComment

Circuitry {a poem}

Circuitry {a poem}

The arsenal of poems about mothers doesn't need another mother poem

PoetryJena SchwartzMay 8, 2022Mother's Day, Motherhood, motherhood, mothering, mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, guilt, Jewish, ance, intergComment

Metaphor/Not Metaphor

Metaphor/Not Metaphor

Real Life, Community, ResistanceJena SchwartzMay 6, 2022Roe v. Wade, Abortion rights, Right to choose, CommunityComment

Why We Wordle

Why We Wordle

Real LifeJena SchwartzApril 22, 2022WordleComment

One Heart Is Enough

One Heart Is Enough

I assumed my life would basically look like the life I had growing up.

Real Life, LGBTQIA+Jena SchwartzApril 14, 2022family, family history, memoir, Marriage, marriage, remarriage, Codependence, Healing, healing, self-inquiry Comment

"One True Sentence"

"One True Sentence"

This is why – and how – we practice being brave inside of our fear.

Jena SchwartzApril 4, 2022Comment

It's Not About Fearlessness

It's Not About Fearlessness

Creative ProcessJena SchwartzMarch 29, 2022permission, Writing, writing practice, Writer's block, writers block, self-confidenceComment

Thresholds

Thresholds

Learning oneself is an interesting proposition. So is unlearning oneself.

ObservationsJena SchwartzMarch 27, 2022WritingComment

CHILDREN {a poem}

CHILDREN {a poem}

PoetryJena SchwartzMarch 20, 2022Ukraine, war, trauma, poems, PoetryComment

LEGACY {a poem}

LEGACY {a poem}

PoetryJena SchwartzMarch 14, 2022Comment