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My time with my father is drawing to a close, and my thoughts are focused almost entirely on living and dying, and the challenges that extend beyond a poet’s imagination and resources. Reading Avraham’s book, I am reminded that living is always a tangled story that often is, but never should be, taken for granted.
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Avraham teaches me that the invitation we are offered with birth is the invitation to learn to live well, and to live well is to live with wisdom, and to live with wisdom is to live with a perpetual curiosity and courage and conviction. That is how Avraham lives.
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Avraham holds fast to the conviction that our storied lives are never only unique and idiosyncratic accounts of individual and isolate experiences. Instead, our stories are always part of a network of communal and collaborative stories, a network that knows no beginning and no ending. As human beings, we are inextricably and integrally connected like fire and water and air and earth, sustained by an ecology of ancient elements.
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Avraham’s book is about living with wholeness and love in the world. This is Avraham’s gift.
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Avraham explores the places of dreams and visions, including the psyche, the inimitable imagination, and the ineffable heart. The inner life of the educator is a location that needs to be explored.