A Perfect Stranger
My Organ Donor
By Melody Masha Pierson
I’ve been thinking a lot about my anonymous donor lately because I fortunately just celebrated the two-year anniversary of my double-lung transplant. I find that I am now even more grateful to her, and curious about her...
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Purpose
My Birthday Gift
By Melody Masha Pierson
I had walked in feeling like a failure and left feeling like I had purpose. Purpose. Without that, one can not survive...
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A Night With My Mother
Six Years After Her Death
By Melody Masha Pierson
Sitting next to my mother, I realized that no matter how long your life is, it's never long enough to learn all that you need to know...
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Letter to My Organ Donor's Family
By Melody Masha Pierson
Please believe me when I tell you that, to me, your daughter is an angel. She is on my shoulders; she is like a butterfly in my garden. She is the most beautiful person I have never known, and I carry her within me. Every day...
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A Part of, Apart From
When Our Children Are Grown
By Melody Masha Pierson
Some things never change. The four seasons. The four directions. The hands on the clock. The rising of the sun and the moonlight in the trees. Mothers are here forever. Their children will always be their children...
Women » Motherhood & Childrearing » Joys and Challenges » A Part of, Apart From
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Matters of Light and Depth
By Melody Masha Pierson
I bought the paints, the brushes, a book, some canvases, and the table easel, went home and cleared off the dining room table and set everything up. There it sat for about two weeks. I walked by it. I peered at it. I arranged it. I examined it...
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Remembering
By Melody Masha Pierson
I think there are certain times of the day, certain events you experience, that lead you back to a place in your memory where you realize just how deep, important and penetrating to the soul your experiences have been...
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Susie Solomon
By Melody Masha Pierson
Susie Solomon. A nice Jewish girl, like me? Who loves horses? What were the odds back in the day? Some people thought her a dreamer, not very practical and maybe a little crazy. Well, we know that "a little crazy" can be a very good thing, at times...
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Day In, Day Out
By Melody Masha Pierson
Like the multiplication tables we memorized, just like the laundry we never seem to stop doing, just like the seemingly unimportant passages in our daily prayers from the siddur, they are our reminders that nothing, zero, nada, gornisht, is for nothing...
Women » Women's Narrative » Editorial & Commentary » Day In, Day Out
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Torah for Dummies
By Melody Masha Pierson
Some of my friends thought I was becoming "religious." That was a good one, considering I always thought an observant Jew was someone who noticed that the carpet needed a cleaning...
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Melody Masha Pierson is a 51-year-old Jewish woman in Montreal, and member of the Chabad Montreal Torah Centre. She is the happy and grateful recipient of a new pair of lungs following a recent double lung transplant. It was her writing and Torah learning that provided her with the strength and faith to stay positive and productive through her challenging time.
