I am in here.
The electricity went out this morning. This is a minor crisis for me because, not only do I not get my Internet, I don’t get air conditioning. In Jaffa’s summertime, this is worth getting upset about. Dafna arrives for work, and we can’t figure out what the problem is… all the circuit breakers are in … Continue reading Early one Sunday morning…
I actually found a hotel with one room left within walking distance of the house of one set of friends who live in the Baka neighborhood. Was picked up just before it was officially Erev Shabbat and whisked away to Ein Kerem for dinner with a second bunch of friends. Ein Kerem is the small … Continue reading Shabbat in Yerushalayim
Made it to Yafo. And I live in a house like a regular Israeli. Cool, hunh? I live through an extremely bumpy four-hour flight to TLV from Barcelona. Do you know that there’s a special Hebrew prayer to say when there is air turbulence? Well, there is, and the nice Hasid sitting next to me … Continue reading Yafo.
The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination’s tongue, grief, mercy, language, tangerine, weather, to breathe them, bite, savor, chew, swallow, transform into our flesh our deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince, living in the … Continue reading O Taste and See
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