Lines form on my face and hands lines form from the ups and downs I'm in the middle without any plans I'm a boy and I'm a man I'm eighteen and I don't know what I want eighteen I just don't know what I want eighteen I gotta get away I gotta get out of … Continue reading Eighteen
Category: israel
This Is ISRAEL
I am listening to the radio. A woman is on. She is talking about life. About gratitude. About unity. She is saying how we are all family. She is reiterating the need to act as one nation. To help one another. To reach out to one another. To connect with kindness. She is interrupted. AZ'AKA (alarm) … Continue reading This Is ISRAEL
STOP…In The Name Of God
With each report…of sirens…rockets…terror… My heart constricts…shrinks…and trembles… And I try…to be strong…to be fierce…to believe… That this land…our land…my land… Is protected…by a power…an Almighty… Who is determined…to let us…prevail… And as these thoughts…float through my head… They meet another train…of wandering words… That say…that it sounds…eerily similar…to the rhetoric…they use. And I am … Continue reading STOP…In The Name Of God
Jonathan Pollard and a Coloring Book
We’re going to the US in two weeks. It’s a big trip. It’s a huge trip. We haven’t been there for three years and when we left last time we were a family of three. When we went to get our son’s Report of Birth at the US embassy the consular clapped as she declared … Continue reading Jonathan Pollard and a Coloring Book
I Just Wanted You To Know
Elohim sheli, ratziti sheted’a Chalom shechalamti balayila bamitah (My God - I wanted you to know, the dream I dreamt at night in bed) She sings her favorite song on the swings…in the sand…on the bus…and … Continue reading I Just Wanted You To Know
Colloquially Speaking 