Welcome to Fallow Lab – a year-long journey of exploring better balance between our virtual and actual lives. Inspired by the Jewish Shmita tradition, this journey reinterprets the biblical agricultural practice of a year of release to the land and to the farmer, reapplied for today’s social, economic and digital reality. Our ancestors worked the land, lived its cycles […]
9/9/14 Elul 14 15 of 40 Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe ‘Trust in Allah but tie up your donkey’ goes the Sufi saying – with it’s modern adaptation – ‘have faith but lock up your car.’ or bike. So here’s a life lesson about non-attachment […]
Prepent: 40 daily reminders to change for good and go into a new year, better. read more/subscribe Sep. 8 Day 14 of 40: I can remember it like it was yesterday when in truth this teaching was delivered over 25 years ago in Jerusalem and Reb Shlomo Carlebach has been dead for almost 20. “You’re got a […]
Friday Sep 7 Elul 12 “Always say what you feel, and do what you think is good and right. If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be […]
Prepent Day 10 of 40. 9/4 Elul 11 In God We Trust. What’s my bank statement got to do with the process of soul return? I file my taxes in April. So why am I harvesting my income from this year in the middle of this count as september happens? to be real and raw […]
