Making the Ketubah
Leiah Bowden describes the breathless wait and sacred preparation to decorate a ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract.
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Leiah Bowden
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Signs and Symbols, Wonders of the Soul
When I first began creating what I am now calling my SoulJourney (because that's what they really record) Energy Portraits, I didn't...
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Leiah Bowden
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
We Need Teenagers in Power
This is a drash I wrote for services at Congregation Ner Shalom on June 11, 2021 to honor teenagers, whom I have long felt have been...
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Leiah Bowden
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
What If There's a Test?
I am on the final day of my weekly three-day grand-daughter duty. We are sitting at her sweet white desk and she is showing me the...
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Leiah Bowden
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Aleinu as Hongi
photo credits: http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/maori-elders-explain-meaning-of-hongi.html and https://www.artofliving.org/us-en/grat...
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Leiah Bowden
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Making Laws for This Land
Created as the February 12, 2021 drash, or sermon, for Congregation Ner Shalom. The image refers both to the idea of a hungry mob,...
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Leiah Bowden
- Dec 26, 2020
- 1 min
December Light
It's THAT month. December brings the darkness into which we dash as one hungry tribe, bearing all the light we can find. May the light of...
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Leiah Bowden
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
Calling in the Angels - (Don't Bother, They're Here)
You can listen to this here I’m here to call in the angels, to invite all of us to call in the angels. But what I really want to say is...
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Leiah Bowden
- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Embrace and Deploy
ELECTION “I voted. I voted for the rainbow. I voted for the cry of a loon. I voted for my grandfather’s bones that feed beetles now. I...
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Leiah Bowden
- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
And So Be Patient
In tonight's insightful commentary during services at Congregation Ner Shalom I heard something I wanted to think more about, and I...
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Leiah Bowden
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
A Time to Claim Our Power
You are here to build and to witness. To reflect and cast forth the Divine blueprint alive in you.
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Leiah Bowden
- Oct 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Gift of the Drum
I am human. My birthright spans the cosmos and I can explore it at will.
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Leiah Bowden
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
Joy and Leaving the Harbor
"It is never easy to relinquish the safe harbor.”
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Leiah Bowden
- Jul 22, 2020
- 3 min
Cherub
How absolutely astounding, she thought. Being an artist is confounding, and so lovely. Look what I’ve done, she thought,
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Leiah Bowden
- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Amidah Gift July 10, after chanting “'Peace Like a River”
This peace you sing for
is always around you,
forms the core of your being.
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Leiah Bowden
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
Amidah Gift July 3: Find Me Alone
Know that I am waiting for you
as I always wait for you
to be my empty vessel.
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Leiah Bowden
- Jul 2, 2020
- 3 min
My First Angel
We need to be unabashed about who we are. Or if you prefer, Who We are. Right now.
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Leiah Bowden
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
And Then Everything Changed
the ravaging of this creek I learned to love as I walked for my health and joy is what COVID has done, destroying what was.
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Leiah Bowden
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Or So I Thought: Amidah Gift June 6
This flow of words, breadcrumbs on a dark path have become a pattern of hopes under which I have placed the fabric of my days during this...
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Leiah Bowden
- Jun 20, 2020
- 1 min
Hoping for Breath: Amidah Gift June 19, 2020
I pray for the holding open of the rock at the edge of hope. I pray for the light never to go out. I pray for my eyes never to close. I...
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