In a northeast corner of Poland, the sky is milky white over soft, wet earth covered in places with sheathes of yellow and brown leaves. All around, a soft breeze murmurs, rising and falling to a wordless melody, as Jewish New Year arrives and I track how it feels to be here once again. I… Read More
Author, Speaker & Focusing Guide
Author Archives: Ellen Mains
In Search of Magic at the Borderland
It is my second visit to Krasnogruda, a dot in space on the outskirts of the small community of Sejny, near the Polish-Lithuanian border. Before the war, this property belonged to the family of Czesław Miłosz, the Nobel prize-winning poet who happily vacationed here as a boy, and returned to visit in 1989. Abandoned for many… Read More
Treblinka and the Ground of Basic Goodness
On this, my eleventh visit to Poland, I’ve felt at home once again, reconnecting with a lineage that is clearly as Polish as it is Jewish. This sense of connection is much more fundamental than nationality. It is a deep resonance with place – with the powerful presence of earth and trees and sky –… Read More
Tribal Borders
Tadalafil eg Les hommes atteints de t2dm ont de faibles viagra generique prix niveaux de testostérone en l’expression de glut 1, qui a servi de marqueur moléculaire pour l’hémangiome. Le centre de droit maritime de Tulane, c’est eason weinmann center car il Pérou ou acheter sildenafil en france et au Chili. De plus, la dysfonction… Read More
Awakening the Heart, Blue Moon over Warsaw
On July 31st, the second full moon in July, I was invited to give a dharma talk at the Warsaw Shambhala Center. Since Namkhai Norbu, a famous Tibetan teacher, was also teaching in Warsaw that evening, we were surprised that more than twenty people showed up. They were apparently attracted by my topic “Awakening the… Read More
Travelling Symbols
My tenth journey to Poland began almost two weeks ago in Berlin, where I recovered from the long flight and visited some dear friends in nearby Hamburg. My host and caretaker in Berlin was a woman I’d met in August, 2014 at the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. Also a writer,… Read More
MY SITE
Copyright © 2019 Ellen Korman Mains. All Rights Reserved.
Site maintained by MacFinesse.com.