Alexandra Silber's Blog, page 17
March 22, 2020
Quarantine Books - Part 1
Ahhh books.
Well well well, dear readers. Looks like weve got a fair bit of time on our [perfectly washed] hands.
I keep picturing myself as this beautiful Pre-Raphelite reader, basking in the just-warm-enough rays of the Italian afternoon. I thumb through hand-printed pages of poetry, lazily eat a grape or two. I retire to a supper of hand-made gnocchi and make love with someone named Francesco beneath a fig tree:
©Saint Barbara, Maria Spartali Stillman But the truth is?
It's Day 5...
Well well well, dear readers. Looks like weve got a fair bit of time on our [perfectly washed] hands.
I keep picturing myself as this beautiful Pre-Raphelite reader, basking in the just-warm-enough rays of the Italian afternoon. I thumb through hand-printed pages of poetry, lazily eat a grape or two. I retire to a supper of hand-made gnocchi and make love with someone named Francesco beneath a fig tree:
©Saint Barbara, Maria Spartali Stillman But the truth is?It's Day 5...
March 20, 2020
Domestic Happenings: Rock, Paper, Scissors, ...SHOE?
Rock, Paper, Scissors, SHOE? Life in COVID19-Quarantine includes games, life-long linguistic ERRORS, and a competitive Capricorn energy gone wildly, nay, freakishly, awry.
[NOTE: JUST JOKES! Alec is not really *this* sore of a winner...]
Stay at home you guys! You are saving lives!
[NOTE: JUST JOKES! Alec is not really *this* sore of a winner...]
Stay at home you guys! You are saving lives!
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Life in Quarantine includes games, life-long linguistic ERRORS, and a competitive Capricorn energy gone wildly, nay, freakishly, awry. [NOTE: JUST JOKES! @alec.silver is not really...
March 19, 2020
"From the ashes we rise..."
On March 13, 2020, during this very painful, confusing and uncertain era of our human existence, Rebecca Taichmans original production of Paula Vogels Indecent played its first of, ultimately, only two, preview performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southeast London.
For those of you who may not know, the Menier Chocolate Factory has become a beacon of theatre around the English-speaking world, championing new works, while producing and...
For those of you who may not know, the Menier Chocolate Factory has become a beacon of theatre around the English-speaking world, championing new works, while producing and...
February 29, 2020
"Now Are The Rough Things Smooth'" by Mary Oliver
Now are the rough things smooth, and the smooth
things stand in flickering slats, facing the slow tarnish
of sun-fall. Summer is over...
And therefore the
green is not green anymore but yellow, beige, russet,
rust: all the darknesses are beginning to settle in. And
therefore why pray to permanence, why not pray to
impermanence, to change, to - whatever comes next.
Willingness is next to godliness.
Once I watched a swallow playing with a feather, high in the blue air.
The swallow wanted to fly and...
things stand in flickering slats, facing the slow tarnish
of sun-fall. Summer is over...
And therefore the
green is not green anymore but yellow, beige, russet,
rust: all the darknesses are beginning to settle in. And
therefore why pray to permanence, why not pray to
impermanence, to change, to - whatever comes next.
Willingness is next to godliness.
Once I watched a swallow playing with a feather, high in the blue air.
The swallow wanted to fly and...
February 22, 2020
Domestic Happenings: Alec Hates Musicals
WILL the sun come out tomorrow? Who knows...
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January 31, 2020
'Earth, You Have Returned to Me' By Elaine Equi
Can you imagine waking up
every morning on a different planet, each with its own gravity?
Slogging, wobbling, wavering. Atilt and out-of-sync with all that moves and doesnt.
Through years of trial and mostly error did I study this unsteady way
changing pills, adjusting the dosage, never settling.
A long time we were separate, O Earth, but now you have returned to me.
every morning on a different planet, each with its own gravity?
Slogging, wobbling, wavering. Atilt and out-of-sync with all that moves and doesnt.
Through years of trial and mostly error did I study this unsteady way
changing pills, adjusting the dosage, never settling.
A long time we were separate, O Earth, but now you have returned to me.
January 24, 2020
January 18, 2020
In dialogue with "Hey, Alma" regarding my Bat Mitzvah!
Hello, darling blog readers! Below is an interview I did with Emily Burack for the glorious Jewish website Hey Alma.Enjoy a little peek inside my journey to becoming a Bat Mitzvah at 36, and all the illuminating points along the way.
The article below was published on Hey Alma, January 17, 2020.
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Alexandra Silber is a Broadway star, writer, Jewish educator and now a newly bat mitzvahed woman.
Lets back up a second. Silber is Jewish; she was raised outside Detroit, Michigan, the daughter...
December 31, 2019
"Poem Without an End" by Yehuda Amichai
Inside the brand-new museum theres an old synagogue. Inside the synagogue is me. Inside me my heart. Inside my heart a museum. Inside the museum a synagogue, inside it me, inside me my heart, inside my heart a museum
[Translated by Chana Bloch]
[Translated by Chana Bloch]
December 27, 2019
Entering the Mikveh
I dunked!Hooray for the Mikveh! I’ve always been Jewish but it’s official. [Seriously. There’s like...*paperwork...*]
I will find the time to properly find the words to express what this entire journey has meant, but for now?
Today: I dunked.
The immersion in the mikveh serves as many things, but in this instance, it acts as a symbol of #affirmation— a return to a source — and an act of renewal.
The Mikveh experience can be a way of softening traumas of the past, or to start anew after a...
