(Boy, it's been so long since I've written in this thing, I almost forgot my password!)
L'shaná tová from Sefarad. While there are many fewer people offering that traditional New Year's greeting today than there were 500+ years ago, we found some with whom to celebrate Rosh Hashanah this last week, when we returned to Seville for the holiday. Our trip back felt like a homecoming, with all the bad blood between us gone for good. A real teshuvah—the Hebrew term commonly translated as "repentance," but literally meaning "turning back," or "return," to our highest selves and ways of being—that has laid groundwork for introspection about the past year.
