minute

must time always be measured by distance? a minute: the precise length of space between two dots on a dial if I move farther, and then farther still, always pushing the dot ahead of me, does time stream out and expand behind my feet? to end up at some number too high to have been Continue reading minute

Sukkot

Dinner (of a sort) tonight at Cafe Beginah (Garden Cafe) with Mordechai, Jacob, and Avraham. We watched a tad bit of the “Bible Code” show, with Mordechai in prominent role, and a fair piece of the third episode of “Cosmos,” the one that tells about the life of Johannes Kepler. We were getting many and Continue reading Sukkot

another world

My friends at the Sukkot dinner tonight were still astonished that I’d simply gone to Bethlehem yesterday. They didn’t know you could do that. And unplanned, too. “She just took a taxi there…” Most lasting image of the trip: Beit Jala, the walls… All walls throughout the world draw posters to them like magnets. Therefore, Continue reading another world