Oh, Now I Remember!

I've been working on a special blog post (which you will see soon) and began searching through my old notebooks and journals from college. I found some journals that are 11 years old! One in particular excited me; it was from a creative writing class I took my freshman year at Central Michigan University. It had to be my favorite elective class (hands down!) but I all but completely forgot about it! Some of my writing assignments (complete with my professor Eric Togerson's raving reviews, I might add) were in the journal, and I'm so impressed with myself (haha) that I am going to share some of these poems with you.  Enjoy. *These are all dated spring of 2001.*

I

want

to share with

you a special picture.

Come, look over here, in this

window, through the lace and sparkling

clean glass. Behind us the sun hasn't begun to 

set, yet but beyond the window ensues a race against time.

You see a mother and her children scurrying around the house, everyone with a job to do,

all of them working as though the Queen of England were coming to examine their

home. You see the mother going from room to room, supervising the children

and the chores, and preparing the dinner. For a while it seems as though 

the house gets messier before it gets cleaner, but in a big house like 

this, that's how it is. What are they preparing for? There is a 

word for it, Shabbat, Sabbath, the day of rest. Everything must be

ready for Shabbat. When the father returns home from shul, the whole

house is in order, the dinner is ready, and two special loaves of lovely braided

bread, Hallah, are on the table beside the glass of wine and the two tall beautiful

white candles. The weariness of the week melts away, and a peaceful spirit descends on 

the family gathering around the table. We can't see inside 

the window very well because the sun has set. When 

three stars appear above, the mother lights the

two white candles, and the father blesses 

the wine and the bread and gathers 

his children and wife around 

so he can give a blessing to

each one in

love