Tribute and Legacy: Being Present
Posted by Lisa Niver Rajna on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Happy New Year! I hope that this year will be full of great adventures and fulfilling goals. We open our first We Said Go Travel Writing Contest TOMORROW!
For my dad’s birthday, I wrote him a post: TRIBUTE and LEGACY: Being Present which was published in the Huffington Post.
It begins:
Sitting between my parents at the temple where I grew up, I felt lucky. It seemed odd at a funeral, but that is how I felt. After years of traveling by land and sea, I was home and sharing in an ancient tradition to commemorate the life of our temple’s matriarch, Florence Zeldin (August 13, 1919 – May 20, 2012).
My parents joined Stephen S. Wise Temple when at age 9, I said, “I want a Bat Mitzvah,” Neither of my parents had been raised with much formal knowledge of the Jewish religion. Ready to share in my zeal, they took a class together and became B’nai Mitzvot, making lifelong friends in the process. To me, my parent’s partnership of nearly fifty years of marriage has been a fine role model by example.
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Lisa Niver Rajna, M.A. Ed. is an accomplished travel agent, blogger, speaker, science teacher and member of the Traveler’s Century Club, a unique travel club limited to travelers who have visited one hundred or more countries. Lisa Niver Rajna was recently on National Television as a science teacher on the show Career Day. She is a 2012 nominee for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. She traveled across six continents with Club Med, Princess Cruises, Renaissance Cruises and Royal Caribbean International. Look for her underwater as a PADI divemaster, in the science lab, or on the road traveling to an exotic location. She writes for National Geographic, the Huffingon Post, Jewish Journal and Technorati. In 2008-2009, Lisa and George Rajna spent eleven months wandering Southeast Asia from Indonesia to Mongolia where they fell in love, got engaged, and now as a married couple are writing a book about their journey. On July 1, 2012, the couple left for Indonesia for another year sabbatical in Asia. Read about the first seven months in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and India on “Our Trip!”
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