{"id":1094,"date":"2016-12-31T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2016-12-31T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:36:45","slug":"extended-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Extended Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At dance class as I listened to the drums, aside from the rhythms, I actually heard music.\u00a0 There was a melody coming through that the drums alone could not be sounding. \u00a0It was magical.\u00a0 We danced, \u201cKassa,\u201d one of my favorite dances from the Malinke people of Guinea.\u00a0 It is not surprising that the word means, \u201cto plant.\u201d \u00a0As I danced, I was able to be uplifted, challenged, graceful, shed some tears and even be silly.\u00a0 My mom was coming through and Maya too, as always.\u00a0 I felt held.\u00a0 No, not physically, but by the loving arms of this community.<\/p>\n

And \u201cthis community\u201d goes far beyond the dance floor. \u00a0I find my community at my work at JFS Orange, it\u2019s the Kol Hai community, the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, New Paltz Jewish Congregation, my friends from childhood, social action groups, my family, Rowe, my neighbors, parents of my children\u2019s friends, storekeepers, people on Facebook, people we touch through the work of the Maya Gold Foundation and on and on. \u00a0Gee, if you are reading this, you are part of my community.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Jonathan has shared with me, \u201cit\u2019s gravity that keeps on the ground, it\u2019s love that keeps us connected.\u201d\u00a0 I will take that one step further.\u00a0 It is being connected that has kept me on the ground.\u00a0 Without the love, your love, I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d be here.\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n

I know that I\u2019ve expressed these feelings in the past, but my heart tells me that it\u2019s important to give voice to them again.\u00a0 As this year is coming to a close, I\u2019m sharing with you my deep gratitude and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At dance class as I listened to the drums, aside from the rhythms, I actually heard music.\u00a0 There was a melody coming through that the drums alone could not be sounding. \u00a0It was magical.\u00a0 We danced, \u201cKassa,\u201d one of my favorite dances from the Malinke people of Guinea.\u00a0 It is not surprising that the word…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gifts-since"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-hE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}