My research continues. I'm using my project manager skills to organize this paper. Setting up the right software, arranging sovereign study space, blessing and ritualizing my intention, personal discipline, permissions to succeed, to be joyful and excited about the Lecha Dodi - well, whew! how could a person not be thrilled, not be holy organized?! When it comes to detail I am a mundane person, yet I feel I will not become complacent in these next twenty-four months for this poem has so much life, so much inherent beauty, and such radiance that approaching this research and writing, editing and consulting, and developing more and more questions while realizing I must at a specific time, stop and formulate a conclusion - ah! I am humbled and energized.

Perhaps, simply perhaps, this Shabbat Queen will laugh when I cry, dance in Her light when I might hide under my shadowed covers, and somehow understand my yearning and love for Her presence. What an excursion upon which I am to embark - what joy. It is my hope and prayer that my Dissertation Committee shares alignment (mazal) of good (tov) intention (kavanah) and that we all see the Shekhina as our guide through this sacred/secular work of scholarship.