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About me
Welcome and thank you for visiting! I’m Naomi – a mother, writer, creative soul, and avid reader. I aim to share my thoughts and ideas to inspire positive change that will help you live an authentic and caring life.
Poetic Aperture is for me and for you. I often write just to process the swirling activity inside, but I also hope to inspire COMPASSION, COURAGE, and WONDER in you and support you on your journey of elevating the everyday.
I am a rabbinical student at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. I am fortunate to have an amazing 15-year-old daughter and a supportive husband of 22 years.
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… reading in bed, candles, diving into a new project, learning something new, crisp crunchy leaves underfoot, hearing my daughter laugh, starting a new book, finishing a book, organizing, floating on my back in the pool and staring at the sky, writing, craft supplies, photography, poetry, a good massage, knowing smiles, singing along to the radio, getting things done, comfy bedding, hot chocolate, paying attention to the details, libraries and bookstores, campfires, astronomy, finding beauty in the everyday, impromptu road trips, quiet, journaling, learning about myself, waking up and reading in bed (preferably with coffee), home, interesting flowers, affection, Sleepytime tea, capturing a moment in time with my camera, true laughter, soft rain.
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“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.” ~ Michael Nolan
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Category Archives: Writing
Blogcation
Friends, I’m taking my usual blog break for the remainder of December. Thank you all for reading and traveling along with me on this journey. There have been many times when your comments have made my day! I appreciate each … Continue reading
Tearing apart the past
“You see a wall, you look at it so much and so hard that one day you see clear through it, then, of course, it’s not just one wall any longer. It’s every wall that ever was.” ~Thomas Wolfe, You … Continue reading
Digital streamlining
I wrote a post a couple years ago, when the blog reader/organizer Google Reader was being shut down, about how to simplify online life. Rereading the comments got me thinking that 1) it’s something most of us struggle with and 2) … Continue reading
Same tour, different itinerary
I’m honored to be tapped again to participate in this blog tour. I answered these questions in mid-May in this post, just after (coincidentally) my daughter was sick. Why go on the same trip yet again three months later? I … Continue reading
Let’s put on our perspectacles
(This woman is meant to be jumping for joy – print and original available here.) (Quotation by Richard Wagner) I must tell you that being healthy again after being under the weather for a few days has really given me … Continue reading
Talking myself into slowing down
(In the middle of way too many books) Here’s the dialogue that I wrote in my journal the other day. I was answering myself from a wise place of inner knowing that had been mostly invisible to me until now. … Continue reading
