Two elements in life are always amazing to me.  The element of history.  Every time I realize how long civilization has been going on as usual, how long people have been living almost the same way we are living – I am amazed.  Today at Ovdat, a place where I have been many times, but long ago when I was apparently young and stupid, I began to imagine a woman like me living thousands of years ago in the villa on the other side of the hill from the bath-house, feeding her babies, enticing her husband with humor and food and wine, bathing in the incense bought and sold on the incense trail from Egypt to Petra – frankincense and myrrh – praying to one god or another for frivolous things… just like me.  Only well over 2000 years ago.  

The other thing that floors me is nature – how it is so alive, transforming, magnificent.  I’ll try to show you some of it – some of the desert blossoming, but my computer is malfunctioning and it will take time.  Here’s my amazement: