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beach -1.8.26
i always write about the beach, because it is always fascinating. The sea has a way of reassuring me that some things endure even when everything else is a mess. Unfortunately the restaurant was closed and only a takeaway window remained, but the food was great and the birds enjoyed it very much.
Ezi enjoyed even the less friendly ones.
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blood tests - 1.7.26
I know this isn’t the place to tell you this, but I am so happy with my repeat blood tests I’m celebrating everywhere I can. they were scary last week – the same results as ten years ago when i was hospitalized. I couldn’t get hold of a doctor (except the one on call, who pooh-poohed my fears and told me to take the tests again), didn’t want to risk Emergency because i wasn’t thinking straight, and decided to take the antibiotics i had stashed away exactly for this kind of emergency. And today I took the tests again and everything is back to normal. Maybe I was just all dried out, maybe there was a mistake in the tests, but I feel so much better I know I had something that the antibiotics fought.
The isolation was the worst – not having someone take responsibility for me.
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return of the flu - 1.6.26
I’m sure you have heard enough from me about the flu – but it’s back again.And a friend in NY wants me to go to a flu rehab hotel in the city. I’ve always trusted the docs here, but lately – with our brain drain – I’m trusting the docs less and less. But I’m not doing to a flu rehab in NY because my experiences there have not been better… not lately. somehow i feel that we’ve lost the direction of progress in medicine lately.
but it could be the fever talking
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In Every Generation
jan 15, 2026
7:30 p.m. – jerusalem time
Simon Lichman, Ann Bar-Dov, Michael Kagan, and Karen Alkalay-Gut — four members of the Israel Association of Writers in English.
write me for the zoom link a gut22@tau.ac.il
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mourning - 1.5.26
We went to see the deconstruction of the camp of the hostages and their families. Next to the museum, the library and the courthouse, the yellow chairs stacked up, the flags in a pile, the signs praying for the release of the body of the last hostage. Everything pointed not to the end of a chapter, but the beginning of a release to mourn.
I have told you before, haven’t I, that we are all in shock – every one in this country in one form or another. This change signals a form of metamorphosis.
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short walk - 1.4.26
took a short walk down King George St. this evening. It’s a sleezy street, but always fascinating. second hand clothing, felafel, independent pharmacies…
We wound up at Brooklyn Pizza where we had corn beef pizza –
I woule have enjoyed it more if i hadn’t become exhausted at the short walk. It really made me realize how powerful my flu was. There was so much to tempt me and no energy to buy.
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crowded restaurants - 1.3.26
When our friends suggested we meet for lunch on saturday it seemed impossible to me. It must be the busiest time of the week, except maybe for Friday night. But she called back to say we would meet at “Amora Mia,” and I thought – she is such a distinguished woman with very high standards. how could she be choosing a place to meet that sounds like a kitschy dive?
But it turned out to be much better than the mid-priced restaurant we ordered from last week when i finally broke down and refused to cook.
Because I’m horribly anemic after this flu I ordered liver again and it was perfect. last week’s uncooked liver went to the cat. And we even threw out the desserts. This time everything was perfect, and even the noise didn’t bother us. We reveled in a friendship of more than fifty years and the joy of being together.
As another friend said to me yesterday, Shabbat is always shabbat in Israel, no matter how you celebrate it.
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