honey and sting

Gaza has left me feeling absolutely paralyzed. This essay, reposted with permission, clarifies some things for me beautifully. I have been reacting to Gaza with exactly the trauma that I dealt with conflicts in my family -- with dealing with my father's bullying but knowing at least some of it came from being a concentration camp survivor and HIS trauma -- with dealing with my mother's depression and grief and victimhood and my resentment of that and how THAT came from HER trauma... and so on. And me feeling entirely helpless and in the middle.

Read what Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar has to offer, for the sake of healing, love, and light.

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