Journey Paper: Rachel Wolf

circa 1972 “I’M LOSING MY CHILDREN!!” This agonized cry came from my mother as I sat in the living room. My brother had become a radical SDS activist; I, a Messianic Jew. I think she feared for his life. But with me, it was different; it was as if the universe had suddenly been interrupted; every star and molecule was holding its breath fearful that Newton and Einstein had lost their grip. She stood in the foyer, beside the living room. She had come to wail, as the wailing women of ancient days till now grieve for the lost and dying. More than forty years later her cry echoes