Links we sent our friends #22

Poetry from a friend, plus books, music, and more from our guest

I keep writing and re-writing the intro for this week, just as I refresh the news. Everything that is happening, the escalation of further violence, political factions forming in our own communities and online, the sheer volume of lives lost too soon — it is unreal. As an American Jewish woman, it has felt extremely far away and also way too close to ho…