Illumination and gratitude — the light that follows the search. These posts gather the week’s insights, offering perspective, peace, and renewal. Stories of endurance, healing, revelation, and the joy of rediscovered light.
Auld Lang Syne is not a celebration song. It is a ritual of recognition—shared history acknowledged, time passed, bonds that held across distance and change without anyone pretending it cost nothing. It is sung as often at funerals and farewells as at midnight, and for the same reason.
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Many cultures place the seat of the soul in the heart. Facing a transplant, the question became unavoidable: what would this do to me, and would I still be me? Two rabbis, a minister, a priest, and several others were asked. All of them answered the same way, without hesitation.
