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As the story ends, Pearl and her Not only the visions, but also the father plant marigolds together, and smells and tastes remain: the aroma Pearl promises that when she has inside the sukkah at night, and every- grandchildren, "I'll buy a shovel and thing — absolutely everything — about plant giant orange marigold seeds for Pesach. my grandchildren. After we've planted "It's my favorite holiday," she says. "I the seeds, I'll let them pick the red love that Passover feeling; it's so spiritual checkers, and win, and read stories and glorious. I love the home cooking, way past their bedtimes. Just like the special dishes." Grandpa." She adds: "I like the rituals: asking the Pearl's Marigoldsfir Grandpa is a questions and the discussion and the favorite with her readers, but it was diffi- jokes and the banter." cult for Zalben to write. "It took me 10 This year, as always, she will prepare years," she says, what she calls a during which "Martha Stewart time her father seder" on the fami- and father-in- ly sun porch. law died. She Without the assis- dedicated the tance of hired help book to them ("I can't imagine both. that," she says), Sometimes, she'll dust, scrub, her books fea- sweep and organ- ture recipes, ize. She will open which Zalben all the screens and and her family fill her home with have tested in flowers. their very own "I love the way kitchen at the sun comes home in New through the glass- York — a ware on the table," . .a kitchen that she says. STORY ANi ) 11...=R.F.5 BY doubles as And the smell of JANE BRESKIN Zalben's studio. charoset reminds "I'm very her of her job at disciplined," she says. the seders of her childhood — chopping This was a trait learned by working the nuts for that tasty ceremonial dish'. while raising two boys, and making Zalben, who admires the work of certain family always came first. It's Matisse, the writing of Elizabeth Berg something few of her male colleagues and everything by children's author- likely have mastered. "I don't think illustrator William Steig, says the best any of the men in my writer's group things in life are "my family. And I love are really thinking of defrosting the art and I like laughing." Music and writ- lamb chops," she says. ing rank quite close behind, she says. Finding inspiration is never a prob- These days, Zalben is "returning to my lem. "I have too many projects going on childhood, going back to being 3 and 5, at once," she says. "My mind goes faster trying to return to 'the Jane who was.'" than I can produce. Inspiration is not One of her first loves was poetry, and the issue; the issue is time." so she is writing a poetry book with her In the kitchen, also home to the fami- husband, Steven, an architect. Inspired ly's pet bunny Zoe (it used to be her by the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on son's, she explains, but then he went to America, this new book, Let There Be college and the bunny stayed), Zalben Light, will contain poems and prayers to paints using a 000 brush, almost help heal the world, she says. These will unimaginably small, and always works include not only works from Jewish tra- to size. She paints on parchment, com- ditions, but those from other religions pleting her pictures with gold and silver and cultures as well. paint reminiscent of ancient Jewish reli- She's also writing a novel, along with a gious manuscripts. former student. Often, Zalben's own past becomes "I feel like I'm experimenting more, part of the book. She vaguely remem- doing more collaborative kinds of bers a synagogue she had gone to as a things." child, a very old-world kind of place, It's more of a need than a choice, she filled with wood. It's now featured in says: "After 50 books, either you stag- some of her stories. nate or you reinvent." oga c5 0.0 9 DAYS WITH DAVID SWENSON `F S/. Namaste Yoga Farmington Hills 40 Noyember 9-17, 2002 •yoga Instructor training RYT August 25,2002 •Workshops 8. Miniseries •Gift certificates Namaste Yoga Royal Oak Namaste Yoga Farmington Hills 309 Troy St. 31154 Haggerty Road (Downtown Royal Oak) (14 Mile & Haggerty) Only Nationally Registered Yoga School in Michigan Ph: 248-399-9642 e-mail: namastevez@aol.com Ph: 248-788-8388 Internet: namaste-yoga.net ❑