A guest from abroad – a woman my age – how how how do i keep her cool and happy on a boiling afternoon? Lunch, souvenir shopping and then a new outfit at Comme-il-faut. After a light but not inexpensive lunch, we went to Leiyla and she bought a t shirt that says in Hebrew “Thank God I was created woman” (i bought them last year for my daughters and daughter in law – it’s a variation on the morning prayer, “Thank God I was not created a woman”), and then at the clothes part she got another one that says “Utopia” in Arabic and Hebrew. While the saleswoman was explaining to my friend that it is important that the shirts are in both languages so that we may learn to speak each other’s languages, I also bought some tees at the shop, flowered sleeveless numbers that I had no business even trying on, but made me feel incredibly hip. The politically correct shirts just didn’t do anything for me.
Am i not interested in co-existence? Yes, and I will do whatever I can every chance I can get. But I don’t think I can wear that shirt.
…Maybe because it feels like a way to escape actual action.
