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How can we take pleasure in the lessening of the rockets when we see the footage of mass graves in Gaza?  It doesn’t ease our pain to know that every house there is filled with weapons of war.  Who knows whether they were put there by the families, the kindergarten teacher or the doctors or whether they were part of the ideology of the household?  Who knows if the body bags going into the ground are filled with people or rubble?  who knows what the truth is?  All I can know is that there are rockets that can kill us and can fall on us at any moment.  So a moment free of that fear must be cherished.

And believe me, it is.  Not out of self-induced ignorance  but out of great appreciation of each moment of grace.  So here today we sat at Manta Ray and ate fish from Jaffa and watched the waves and rejoiced.  

 

 

pleasure – dec 27, 2023 Read Post »

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nah. i’ve been corssing my fingers to keep from biting my nails. but whatever happens there is no way we will go back to facts and truth. my entire education was spent in building knowledge on knowledge, working from solid ground, etc. and now i am not even sure of the ground on which i stand. nobody has slept tonight. not only because of who wins but what will emerge from the reaction of the people.

i’m going to the beach

november 4, 2020 – will we go back to believing in truth? Read Post »