Margaret Wolff
The Spirit of Giving
When I was in my twenties, the fates and the gods led me to a remarkable gentleman who turned out to be the wisest person I would ever...
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Margaret Wolff
- Aug 8
- 4 min
The Necessary Heart
I collect quotes, arbitrary, wildly beautiful pearls of wisdom find me out of the blue almost as if they have been waiting around for me...
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Margaret Wolff
- May 26
- 5 min
Out of the Blue
The first time it happened I was twenty-three and living in Detroit. I’m at a party. Someone drones on about a Gordon Lightfoot album;...
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Margaret Wolff
- May 7
- 4 min
Mother Love
Nestled beneath the rim of the foothills that slope South to the Sea of Japan, midway between the Guardian Mountains of Hiei and Atago, a...
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Margaret Wolff
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Next
Next Looking, watching breathlessly For night to green the day, When Next fans out before me And clearly shows my way. When the promise...
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Margaret Wolff
- Mar 19
- 4 min
The Great Safekeeping
When I was a few days shy of the better part of three, I became very ill with the reigning viral malady of the day. Trembling with fever...
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Margaret Wolff
- Feb 23
- 4 min
What Is Worth Knowing?
In the early years of the 18th century, a great teacher, a Hassidic Master, lived in a small village nestled in the foothills of the...
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Margaret Wolff
- Jan 27
- 5 min
A Divine Invitation
Several years ago, I was invited to a small, but prosperous mill town in South Carolina to lead a 3-day women's retreat on "The Emerging...
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Margaret Wolff
- Jan 15
- 3 min
No Peeking Allowed
No Peeking Allowed Janey's sixth birthday. We skipped school. We did not brush our hair. We ate chocolate pudding with our fingers for...
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Margaret Wolff
- Dec 30, 2021
- 4 min
Twenty Twenty, Too
My daughter Julie and I are having a thoughtful conversation about using 2022 to its best advantage. If, as “they” say, Omicron has taken...
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Margaret Wolff
- Dec 11, 2021
- 3 min
Sing in Exultation
During the winter of my eighth year—in the days when music and art were still part of the standardized elementary school curriculum—the...
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Margaret Wolff
- Nov 20, 2021
- 3 min
Gathering
As Thanksgiving approaches here in the Western world, Santas are sighted in fast food restaurants grabbing a quick coffee and menus and...
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Margaret Wolff
- Nov 6, 2021
- 5 min
Giving Thanks
The Rule was that no one left the table until the meal was done, but the Rule only applied to the children. The women sprang from their...
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Margaret Wolff
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
I Know Your Song
In the time when women ran the world and the world returned the favor, Mothers of every tribe took the girls who no longer walked in...
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Margaret Wolff
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Answered Prayers
When I was a little girl, curls wrestling for dominion with red plastic barrettes that barely contained their sway, I spent every...
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Margaret Wolff
- Sep 24, 2021
- 2 min
Truths That Are Bigger Than Sorrow
I’m walking down the Coast Highway the other day, minding my own business, doing a little window shopping, checking out menus at the...
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Margaret Wolff
- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
CENTER EVERYWHERE, CIRCUMFERENCE NOWHERE
November 2002: We sat on the floor in a circle, twelve women in a hotel ballroom nestled on the shores of Lake Geneve. It was the kind of...
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Margaret Wolff
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Best Prayer
She was not more than six years old. The early morning dew still glistened on the petals of her life’s rose. She came to the temple at...
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Margaret Wolff
- Aug 21, 2021
- 4 min
Dollar Signs
It was one of those flawless Southern California days you see in the movies. We’d been living in Los Angeles for two months. Everything,...
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Margaret Wolff
- Aug 3, 2021
- 4 min
“Pearls are always appropriate.” – Jackie Kennedy
As promised. Here it is. The A-ha! that prompted the poem in the last blog. A little drum roll, please. Several years ago, I woke one...
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