“You and I will change the world,” sang Arik Einstein, who died 8 years ago on the ever of Hanukkah. It was such an important song and such an important idea. “And then everyone else will join in,” is the second line. Doing a good deed for others, he said, is contagious.
I sometimes cry when I hear him sing this.
no. I always cry when I hear it. I pass his house and I cry.
This is what I wrote 8 years ago for him.
Arik
The last time I saw him
he pushed back from the table
stood and pulled up his shirt
to show his stomach.
“This,” he said, “this is solid.”
And I agreed.
Last month I passed
the restaurant,
“Crown of the East,”
and thought –
it’s still there
Where I sat once with Eli
who’s long dead, and they’re even now
probably talking song and soccer,
and Arik still drops by.
But today comes with news
suddenly with his death
the spontaneity of a people’s love,
the same public fervor he would have said
distracts us from important issues…
And always always I hear him
on the radio, on my smartphone,
in my head,
wherever I am
and I think:
this, this is solid.
november 29, 2021 – you Read Post »
the international photography exhibit took place in and around the Daniel Amichai Rowing Center. It’s been going on for weeks but I only got to it today. 
