GREAT READS Issue 631 · October 13, 2016

My Space, My Place

My Place ,We step into the succah, enter a new space, a higher reality. Eleven personal accounts of the way space and place sculpt our inner worlds and shape our stories

My    Space, My Place
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Going to Grandma and Grandpa’s was an opportunity to be nurtured and spoiled


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We step into the succah enter a new space a higher reality. We leave behind our four walls the rooms and objects that form the backdrops of our lives. Yet as we loosen our grip on glass and wood granite and silver we sense their imprint upon us: the way space and place sculpt our inner worlds and shape our stories

STORY ONE (BELOW)│STORY TWOSTORY THREESTORY FOURSTORY FIVESTORY SIXSTORY SEVENSTORY EIGHTSTORY NINESTORY TENSTORY ELEVEN

Grandma’s Pot of Love

Devorah Cohen

Grandma’s kitchen wasn’t one of those warm, heimish kitchens with yeast dough rising, soup simmering, and a bubby in a housecoat doling out fresh cookies.

My grandma was a classy lady with a tan and manicured nails and a big, airy, neat kitchen. But she still made the best fried chicken and sweet-and-sour meatballs, and we’d tell her that as we ate dinner.

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