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 »
Because they promised rain today we postponed our nature trip with the kids and took them to the port to celebrate on pancakes instead.
And what happened? As soon as we got to the port, the rain stopped. We got to take fabulous pictures, eat pancakes, and run around – spinning dreidels and children with all our strength.
By the time we had to take them home, the sun was out.
december 1, 2021 – rain day Read Post »
so it’s Hanukah – and the kids are on vacation – and our calendar is doctor-driven – so today is our only day to see Omer and Tamar. Our plan was to go to Sha-ar Hagai, which has become an interactive museum since it is stopped becoming a way-place for the horses to rest on the way to Jerusalem. But we forgot that the kids need testing the morning of the visit, and testing won’t fit into our schedule, so we’re going out for pancakes at the port instead. The complications of random scheduling and changing rules and inclement weather make flexibility absolutely necessary. But it doesn’t necessarily make it impossible.
december 1, 2021 – hanukah Read Post »
I told every friend who called me told that I was reading at the Yafo Arab-Jewish Theater at the memorial evening for Moti Geldman. “Who’s He?” they all said. And then we told the cabbie what we were going to Jaffa for and he said the same thing.
“People don’t really read poetry anymore,” I told the poets who showed up for the evening, and they absolutely disagreed.
After all, they were there to praise Moti who was one of the best known of all of us.
But the Jaffa Theater is worth any effort to go to. You may remember even I had an event there in the series Moti Geldman had arranged. Just the place and the goal are worthy in themselves. I think I’m going to do a series with them.
november 30, 2021 – Moti geldman Read Post »
