Elul 13-What am I

If you had to answer the question “What are you?” how would you answer? 

Who am I anyway?

Am I my resume

That is a picture of a person I don't know. --A Chorus Line

What am I?

I am a writer. 

I write stories, books, screenplays.  Published--not so much.  but I am a writer. 

What am I?

I am a wife.  I am a partner in love, in laughter, in tears, in worry.  I am the face my husband kisses in the morning before we go to work.  I am the one who strokes his hair before we sleep.  I am a wife. 

What am I?

I am a Jew.  I don't know where I fall on the spectre of observance, but I worship Gd.  My heart sings when the shofar blows.  I tremble when I take the Torah into my arms.  I am a Jew. 

What am I?

I am a person.  I am trying to be the best person I can be.  I get sidetracked with bullshit thrown at me from the media, from politicians.  I don't want to be manipulated, I want to walk my own path, my own journey.

I?  I am Journeywoman.