What compares to the sharp gaze of a wise woman? This is safta, my grandmother, my matriarchal protection. The evil eye keeps coming up in convo lately; maybe because there’s much to anticipate but the excitement is in its infancy. In yiddish, there’s a saying for when you share good news and don’t want someone to put the evil eye on you. “Kein ayin hara.” My friend @andieblaine called her grandmother from the back of an Uber and had her say the prayer for me through speaker phone