I’ve Got Nothing.

Oct 8, 2024, 12:04 AM

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For the better part of the last year, I promised myself I would organize and write something interesting for this day, the one year anniversary of 10/7. Now that the day has arrived, I’ve got nothing. It’s not that I don’t have any thoughts or feelings. It’s that nothing seems adequate or complete. How to put into words the terrors and triumphs, the bonding and the betrayals of the last year?

Every time I start, by the time the words hit the page, it seems like something else needs to be said.

That’s all I’ve got and it’s basically nothing.

About the Author

Jon-Erik G. Storm is a lawyer, a scholar of Jewish texts, and educator. He holds a graduate degree in Jewish studies from Hebrew College, taught religion and philosophy at Cuesta College, taught Hebrew school, and served as president of the Jewish Federation of San Luis Obispo County. In The Stayed Hand, his first book, he brings a litigator's discipline of evidence to the oldest question in the Hebrew Bible.