My Featured Blogger this week is Jewish Young Professional, whose pithy poetry and often witty prose never fail to engage me. She is honest and down-to-earth, even confessional–which is all-too-rare a quality in our world today. Read on and you’ll see what I mean!
When I was five, my dad misinterpreted that verse from Leviticus about not cutting your flesh for the dead as a prohibition against piercing your ears, so I never did, and only in high school did I realize I was following a religion of one – and I wasn’t even religious. Even my father eventually forgot about his own radical interpretation. He never noticed when my sisters pierced, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it, just in case he might be right. I still treat my body like a library book on loan, unable to get a tattoo, to smoke, to dye my hair, to lose my virginity. All of this feels, at twenty-five, like a giant antique chair in the middle of an otherwise modernist living room, too clumsy and impractical for the everyday, too good to sell or throw away, though I sometimes sit upon this virginal…
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Mitch Teemley 
So good! Thanks Mitch for the introduction!
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Just in case. . . . lump in throat
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Thank you, Mitch! I wanted to capture those feelings of belief, doubt, loneliness, and even that bit of self-righteousness at the end. (this narrator’s voice is possibly my favorite of all the poetry I have written). So glad to hear that it has resonated with you and your readers!
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It has indeed.
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I think it must be awkward to have an inherent knowing of the “dignity of the body” in an age that is accelerating towards trans-humanism. Thanks for these poetic images!
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Mitch,
Thanks. Love her thoughts.
Thank you,
Gary
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This is great stuff! So raw and open. Thanks for sharing, Mitch.
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I literally just started following this blogger! She’s really great.
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Always the self doubt / planted deep / In an act of / reverence/
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Really like it, extremely good 👍 How are you Mitch ?
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Great, John, how are you, my friend?
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Good to hear buddy 👍 I’m good i think. I haven’t had much time to come onto WP because I’m so so busy with the new job but it’s great.
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Delighted to hear that!
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Well Mitch that does explain a lot about your Dad’s grand torino ranchero and Clint Eastwood Bee Vang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhbr2XQblk
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good
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Thank you
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