I keep getting letters and pictures from all around the world – friends who are traveling, or who found new homes far away.  One sends a sukkah from a monestary with a cross in the background, another from a field of pomegranates in Majorca with a message from Buddha.  And yet it is about sukkot.  how inclusive this holiday is, how it incorporates the world and all religions. 

The Sukkah

After the gates of heaven close

leaving us alone

facing an unknown year

three fragile walls

invite us in

sheltering from the world

and opening a connection

with the sky.

Yes, yes, the frail hut says,

we are all wanderers

in our precarious havens.

Let us make this transience holy