Five Years Have Passed: Wordsworth's Poetry of Recovery 
William Wordsworth is popularly known as a nature poet, and also as the father of British Romanticism, which is the period to which we owe many of our own intuitions about wholeness and spiritual depth. But he was also a very serious thinker—maybe even a philosopher—about time and its passage: its loops, paradoxes, and secluded paths. Poetry was, for him, one way to try to make sense of time, even as time's knottiness was some of the very stuff of poetry. Together, we'll explore two of his most beloved poems in which he probes these issues, trying to untangle or maybe to get tangled up in the many ways loss and recovery are, as he might have put it, deeply interfused. This session is led by KE member Jonathan Atkins, a PhD candidate in English at Stanford working on poetry and poetics from the nineteenth century to the present. His current research focuses on the phenomenology of and epistemologies associated with verse and verse form. He is also interested in the potential purchase of ideas from performance, music, and the natural sciences for how we might read poems (and vice versa), and, as a recovering lawyer, in the intersections of law and poetics. 

Rebuilding the Self: Wholeness After a Long Term Relationship or Divorce
When significant relationships end, it can often leave us feeling broken and filled with reflective questions: Who am I now? Who do I want to be? How did I get here? What happens now? Where do I want to go? It's a time of both uncertainty and sadness, but also possibility and hope. Join Morat Derech Sarah Miller as we explore the paths to healing and wholeness after a divorce or serious breakup. 

Remembering Loved Ones
The High Holidays invite us to reflect upon our relationships and the people who have most influenced our lives.  Join Rabbi Booth and Rabbi Graff for this  guided opportunity to remember loved ones who have passed away and to appreciate loved ones who are still living.