I comfort myself by noting that I’m not the only one with an addled mind, so it’s not just from the covid that I keep mixing up directions in my computer, missing appointments and misunderstanding people’s feelings.  I mean even the Hamas leaders are at odds with each other.    

But one thing that was clear tonight in the poetry reading (that I had been initially invited to introduce my new book in Hebrew but then been forgotten about in the planning.  )  That people still love poetry in Hebrew and have returned to the holocaust, The trauma of this war seems so similar, it also addles our minds.  But never mind.  Perhaps tomorrow my reasoning will be more clear.