What do you do when half the people you know are in Gaza, you’re still recovering from falling down the stairs on the way to the shelter, and your kids are lost without a summer framework because the camp has no where safe to take care of the kids?  

You spend all your savings on pleasure of course.  Restaurants, cars, trips. clothes, jewelry.  it is very pathetic. 

Because we did what was expected of us,  we voted, and then we began to demonstrate, we write, we scream, and continue to demonstrate.  And  nothing we do gives us any way to make a difference.  All that has happened is that our country has become empty – empty of the million possibilities we always felt – the potential to create, to change, to embrace.  

and now we have to begin to define ourselves again.