The import tax on milk has been removed. It will look good on the books I suppose. Maybe take down the official cost of living which has sprung up recently. But the very thought of killing off the local dairy farmers is terrifying. they get less than ten percent of the cost of the milk products as it is, and the only people who will make money on this move are the politicians and the retailers.
december 7, 2021 – milk Read Post »
There was a discussion today about whether to give the fourth vaccine to immunosuppressed people and I can’t seem to find out what the results of the meeting were. If Ezi can get that vaccine and it works we’re on our way to kiss grandchildren and start travelling around the world. But we’ve made it so far, so why worry now?
Think of all the disasters we’ve all escaped so far! Think of all the bombs we’ve taken cover from. Think of all the bicycles that almost ran into us.
All this sounds crazy but every day the news brings us information about something we could have fallen victim to. And yet, we’re still here. for the moment.
december 7, 2021 – so far so good Read Post »
The Chan theater presented the musical of “The Plague” this evening and, as my friend Alona noted – the theater was filled with aging Ashkenazis. I went with my friend Nili who goes to everything and usually finds much good to say about every play, but was hard put to defend this one. I mean the acting was superb, the staging was remarkable, and the coordination was great. But the play has no plot, and tells the story of the discovery of the plague, its duration, and its end. There’s too much in it that we already know and we’re too involved in that to understand the philosophical significance of the delicacy of ‘normality’.
The theater was impressive, but I find it depressing to go to a play and not be able to chat with friends – primarily because I can’t see who they are.
december 6, 2021 – the plague, the pla Read Post »
until today we had 3 channels that also reported the news, 11, 12, 13. There was also a channel 20 that seemed to be sponsored by a very right-wing power. Today that channel was moved to channel 14, and appears to be presenting itself as central – something like Fox and Friends – but with more political clout. They report the Knesset’s daily doings, for example. It’s worth checking out….
december 5, 2021 – what happened? Read Post »
We just went there for a picnic, but there is so much to see and do in Park Canada we will have to come back many times. For today it was just a snapshot,not a painting
december 4, 2021 – park canada Read Post »
We’re running out of Greek letters, but I don’t think we’re going to have as many more variants before we get to omega. Joseph said there would be seven bad years. But that’s it. Until a new Pharoah rises up ….
december 3, 2021 – 7 years Read Post »
If I asked my mother what she was looking for, she would always look around startled, and say, my lost youth.
I always found that amusing, and, when I was studying psychology and teaching dance in a center for elderly people, I thought I would never follow that path.
But today, as I fought my way through a supermarket, having given up on the totally incompetent update of the Shufersal website, I remembered that line. It’s not a matter of remembering picking flowers in an aromatic meadow and sharing my lunch with a loving schoolmate. It’s human relations I’m missing.
It’s not that people are not kind, or care about each other. They just don’t know one another so how can they be kind or care. At the cheese counter, one little round Russian woman was carefully concentrating on an order. Her devotion surprised me, until a very fancy young man arrived to pick up his order, and said, “Thank you, my soul. I am very grateful.” and he made off for the meat counter. My SOUL!
I pass people all the time at the supermarket who no longer recognize me, and there are probably a few who wonder why I didn’t say hello. But they are masked and preoccupied and so am I.
And this is just a normal day! What will we do when the variant proves an enormous monster. Spend our days at home looking for our lost youth?
december 3, 2021 – nostalgia Read Post »
It was announced yesterday that this is the most expensive city in the world. Who was surprised? When I chose to live in this country, I knew I was lowering my standard of living. I knew I would be living in a smaller place, that I would be spending more of my money on food and electricity, and water than all my friends in the world, and I agreed to that deal. I also knew that life would be more competitive and dangerous. But so what? Yesterday my nine-year-old granddaughter felt like riding on the carousel. It was cold and windy and no other children were there. She was a head taller than the roof of the car she rode, and in the three minutes of the ride she managed to mount every one of the horses and donkeys and carts meant for children half her age. It was hilarious but it brought me back to when I was a child longing to ride on the merry-go-round. I couldn’t afford it then, but I rejoiced in paying 12 shekalim for those 3 minutes. Four dollars.
However, my pleasure was 10 times greater, that it was on the port of Tel Aviv, that the car was a defunct Israeli Susita, that there was a horse-drawn milk wagon on the merry-go-round, and that the parody of the situation transferred to my granddaughter.
So money is a relative thing.
december 2, 2021 – expensive Read Post »
