I have officially gone stir-crazy.  I can’t bear spending any more time planning zoom meetings, cooking, buying online, watching our super-dumbed down tv anymore.  The lack of a result of the elections has just increased my sense of helplessness. 

Maybe something good will come out of the elections – maybe we’ll learn to come together as a people.  

it would be amazing if our new star, Monsour Abbas, could help us bring each other together.  And it’s possible.  After all, he’s from Mughrar and in all the years I was invited to Mughrar for the poetry festival I always came home with the feeling that anything was possible with these people.   (Even though every time I said that people responded that the Moslem and Druze communities fight all the time and get nothing done.)

Still there really may be a chance to go outside soon.  I mean, we’ve been trying real restaurants, we’re hiking again, we’re seeing children, and maybe we’ll begin living normal lives soon.  maybe we’ll even miss zoom.

I’d like that a lot.  missing zoom. 

And I’d like to go to Mughrar again.