Help the stranger, not because of who they are, but because of who you are. Friends and Jewish leaders have said we where I said you, and I do not know which group would claim me, so I said you so I would hear. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am,” wrote Sylvia Plath. A friend who shares this week of my birthday thought I am, I am, I am beside the ocean as a gift.
Image credit: "New map of the world with all the new discoveries," Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, NYPL Digital Collections, 1798.
Close to the Surface 