By Bliss Goldstein
Bliss Goldstein has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, and is the 2022 Winner of CALYX Journal’s Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. She taught writing at Western Washington University in Washington State, USA. She holds a masters degree from Stanford University. At her core, she’s a frustrated rabbi because she could never learn to read Hebrew. At the same time, she’s a Jew-Bu, a Jew who practices Buddhism and meditates regularly. Bliss believes travel is a spiritual practice, though sometimes the journey is just between one’s ears. Fellow pilgrims are invited to follow her here on “THE PATH,” as well as travel to blissgoldstein.com.
Spirals
When I first walked into the house with the spiral staircase, I gasped. Our real estate agent nodded. “Yes,” he said, “It’s a little much, isn’t it?” He gestured towards the blush pink living room walls where wind chimes hung in the arched window. This was a young man who lived to hunt and fish. […]
Is It Too Late for Barbie to Have a Bat Mitzvah?
THE PATH is sometimes just the crazy places my mind goes…. *** In a surprising twist, the most iconic W.A.S.P. (White Anglo Saxon Princess) has been outted as Jewish. Barbie, the best-selling doll spanning eight decades, seems as surprised as her fans. “I never knew my mother was Jewish,” states the OG (Original Gentile) Barbie. […]
Playing Hide and Seek with G-d
Inside Grace Cathedral in San Francisco other pilgrims walked ahead of me on the labyrinth, their measured steps muffled on the tapestry underneath their feet. The tapestry was modeled on the labyrinth chiseled into the floor at Chartres Cathedral in France. I shuffled along with my eyes trained on the carpet, the blinking flames of […]
