Yearly Archives: 2014

Solo Love Song

I used to be half of a couple …

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Maggid Ordination

Maggid Ordination.  January 29, 2012

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Kabbalists Receive Light in Autumn

Mechanisms of Rectified Influence

Tell the Story backwards:
In Spring the mysteries
of Autumn reveal themselves

Posted in Home, Mosaics, Poems

The Ukemama

The Ukemama! Drawing by Greg Canote.

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Each Bird Must Carry Her Own Light

“We must gather and carry the sparks of Birdlight, OrTzipor, into the future. And when that big bird’s nest in the heaven-sky is filled with light, there will be peace in all the worlds, shalom be-khol ha-olamim!” Quote from the

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Broken Glass Ukulele Blues

After creating a Tree of Life shower, a mosaic fire window, and a swirling bathroom countertop, I wanted to do something reasonably sized, like an ukulele.  Yet somehow, in an extended moment of temporary insanity, I purchased enough scrap glass to build

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Eve’s Tree

Cassandra at the performance of Eve’s Tree on March 16, 2013.

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Riffing on a Peacock Feather

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Our stomach was originally our brain
I heard it on the radio

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Teshuvah for Vampires

My grandson said, Bhaju, you’re definitely an old hippie.
I said, Yeah, but what do you mean?
Rainbow everything, he said. Peace love and joy.

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My Mother’s Kaleidoscope

My mother, Pesa Brahna bat Shaindl v’Mordchai was a priestess, albeit a broken one. I inherited her kaleidoscope— the way the shattered world rushed towards her in brilliant sparks and slivers of light multiplied by mirrors, multi-dimensional moments of exquisite

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Maggidah Cassandra Sagan

Writer, Musician, Artist, Story-teller