So you want to know how the poetry reading went.  Well, even though I was overwhelmed by the way my computer was behaving, I was impressed by how the poets managed to convey the sense of individual and collective fear and helplessness that we all feel in these years of war.  I’ll send a link soon.  

But for me, even though I just read a funny poem about fear, what was important to discover was that when I spoke of fear and mourning, I was feeling it for each individual in the group – those whose houses were destroyed, those who were displaced, those who discovered new diseases that are clearly war related and those whose children have lost years of schooling…

and now it will begin again.  Those who have drones coming in their windows to destroy them, those who are struggling to get past mortal injuries from previous bombings of civilians and military personell… I could go on forever and I still have touched on the subject of October 7 itself.  

Even the fact that no newspaper abroad is paying attention to our simple sufferning is a source of grief for me.