​Creation stories are found in all cultures. All religions. In this story from the Kabbalah, we are
asked to gather what has been shattered in the process of creation, to do what we can to heal
what has been broken. What might this recovery look like if we choose to participate? Feel like?
The stories, Gathering the Fragments, Grocery Bag, Angels, and Bicycle, explore how small
efforts can make a big difference, how they help to make the world a better place.

• World Tale: Gathering the Fragments (Kabbalah)
• Broken Bag
• Angels
• Bicycle

The world was created through the emanation of divine light. In order to create beings and places
for them to live, the light had to be contained. Special bowls were prepared to catch and preserve
this light.

I was walking to my car, holding two shopping bags filled with groceries, when I heard a loud
scream and a child’s cries. I saw a woman with a large grocery bag in one hand and a child’s
hand in the other fall to the ground. The child yelled, “Mommy. Mommy.

​In December 2013, I was once again sitting on a recliner in a small room with no windows,
hooked up to IVs sending chemotherapy and medication to reduce allergic reactions into my
body. I was exhausted, depressed, discouraged depleted . . . Wondering why I was bothering to
deal with yet another bout of leukemia, first diagnosed in 1985. A friend had lent me a Tablet but
the few movies I started to watch seemed inane. Boring. Books that had interested me lay next to
my chair unopened. Time passed so slowly I would have guess it had stopped except for people
being unhooked, leaving. New people arriving, being hooked up.

​The woman, I’ll call her Joan, posted a message on Nextdoor; she needed a way to get to work.
She had no car and no money to buy one. Busses didn’t go close enough. Could anyone help?