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my day - 4.23.26

For a month we shut down, and then the ceasefire woke us up.  And then we realized that the ceasefire could stop at any minute and we better get things done before Trump announces the war and the rockets start again.

So we went and bought a car.  

Not a very smart thing to do when you’re about to be bombed.  

nevertheless.

so i met with my editor afterward and we made plans for our launch of the book on poets and their graves, even though there’s a backlog of events in the city that were postponed because of the rockets – at least 2 years of culture to catch up with…  But if we don’t catch up quick, we’ll be overrun by the kitsch that has taken over the media – if we survive the rockets of course.

 

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the big Synagogue - 4.22.26

For Independence Day we went to visit the Great Synagogue that is finally being restored.  It’s been ugly for so long, its beauty defaced, on a street closed for renewal.  It was an amazing feeling to see the synagogue whose decline we’ve following for ages returning to its original function. I think it gives me a feeling that the country too can be restored to the place it was when Ezi’s grandfather built that dome in 1925.  The values were never completely pure, but they had a dream.

 

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experiment - 4.22.26

Since I am pretty much self-taught, and even on intuitive programs have no intuition, I never know what works.  So I’m trying this out and grateful for advice.  I’ve been doing one site or another for over 25 years initially because I wanted to describe what daily life is like in Tel Aviv – especially when the suicide bombers were all over the city and friends were dropping like flies.  After that period it emerged that there are always strange things happening here – and few people outside of the city know about it.  But I also had to prove that I am a real person.

Anyway, I’m finally connecting the jetpack with the wordpress sites and we’ll see what happens.  I may disconnect it at any moment because i prefer my relative anonymity. 

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independence - 4.21.26

It seems crazy – to move from such deep tragedy to joy.  but it works.  The fact of the terrible losses just don’t wipe out the amazing wonder of a country of our own.  With all the injustices we have perpetrated that we’re only beginning to understand….

oh, by the way, tomorrow is the deadline for the ceasefire, so we may be spending tomorrow night in the shelter.

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memorial Eve - 4.20.26

The traditional siren for Memorial Day sounded at 8 p.m. and we had just turned off the t.v. after watching too many stories of soldiers who had died this year.  I’m sure we were not the only people who were convinced that the siren was for a rocket attack for the first 5 seconds.  Then the ceremony began and I began weeping – not for those who died but for those who may die if we are not wise and not vigilant.  

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