Part of poetry’s power is its magical, seemingly sacred, unreachable references, as contrasted, for instance, with the mundanity of news articles’ banal, commonplace orientations. Likewise, though both balladry and straightforward compiling are products of human endeavor, collective norms establish different ends for the two. Poesy and essays might cover the same topics, as exemplified, repeatedly, by the literatures of war, emancipation, and marriage, but they differ in predictable ways.
Dreams are for Coloring Books: Midlife’s Marvels
We often get bogged down with assumptions about what we ought to receive in our relationships with people and with G-d. In learning how to weave together needs of others with our own, and in learning how to accept, rather than to fight against, the measures that G-d gives us, we grow personally, parentally, and professionally. We become happier, too.