July 27, 2012 Economy on the way down? Heat unbearable? You couldn't know that from the cafes in Tel Aviv... We sweated our way through a great meal last night in the square in front of Habima theater. Huberman is a great restaurant but in the still humid air we suffered. There was no room for us inside. Their freekeh tabouleh is beyond belief but for dessert we skipped over to the air-conditioned arcafe across the way.
So today we went back to Pappa's - where the air is cold and the food is hot. There is nothing like the Davide Pizza and we even got a chance to see Davide himself who was here from Italy for a visit. It was my way to say goodbye to Tel Aviv for a while, to go from friend to friend, from cafe to cafe, from old building to old building...
July 28, 2012 Of course we went to the beach to say "lehitraot' today -- The cafe in Tel Baruch built around a circular sand box, It would have been nice if we could have talked about nothing, but our conversation was based around a wasps nest inside the window - between the window penes and the shutters.. Gradually we moved to the wasps nest in government and the feeling was not good. It is so clear we must get a fumigator first thing in the morning. So far we've managed to keep the window closed, but the wasps are getting more and more angry, they'll get in someday,
July 29, 2012
Tisha B'Av - Even if you don't worry too much about the tragedy of the destruction of the temple, this is a tough day for Jews, Warsaw Ghetto destroyed and all that. On the other hand it is my grandson's Hebrew birthday, so there's a lot of hope on that day. The fumigator found a wasps' nest so big he said he'd give him nightmares at night. I find it a miracle that no one was hurt. Except of course the wasps. July 31, 2012 It's simple. We're sitting in Cambridge where the weather is clear and simple, and the politics remote. Romney seems to look smarter here from there, It's easier to get gluten-free cookies. what else?. People have no idea here how complicated life can be - how the daily struggle for existence that is Israel is impossible to sustain. How crowded the emotional schedule of every individual can be. I think I'd like to tell them but there's no way they can engage with the reality of this thought.