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Post by judih » June 15th, 2008, 11:51 am

I keep updating my blog:
Let My People Know - talk about it now
http://talkingnow.wordpress.com
and wanted to mention it here.

Also, tomorrow, Shimon Peres is expected to come visit Nir-Oz.
i'm not sure i'll be here to capture a photo (school's still on, more or less), but i'll be reporting about what happened.

Or at least what he said and if he liked the soup.

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Post by tinkerjack » June 18th, 2008, 8:23 am

Wenesday morning about a half hour after sunrise, if you were living on tulsa time.

In a fit of op-tessimism I started to turn on the TV yesterday to watch the news, and I almost did not. "Why the hell even bother?" What could I possibly hear that could possibly be good news?
And I thought Palestine and Israel having another go at ending the violence. And by golly I heard a sound byte about a possible truce starting tomorrow.

Well not actually a truce more like an "understanding",
No more rockets, no more macabre tit for tats...

Tulsa Time

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Post by Dave The Dov » June 18th, 2008, 8:54 am

What do the umbrellas represent????
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Post by judih » June 18th, 2008, 9:31 am

Hi. I saw the news on Monday when Peres was here. He was shown taking some vegetables from the buffet style vegetable cart. He was served some roasted chicken. He liked the soup.

Later he went to the Kindergarten where he was serenaded by kids. He invited them to state their opinions. One kid said: The Palestinians want to take over our land.
Another kid said: Let's give them a little land and then maybe they'll be ready to listen to us and we can have peace.

Today Peres is in Jordan.

There's talk of a truce with Hamas. I simply hope that Hamas stays on top long enough for the truce to have meaning.

Dave, the umbrellas are part of an art installation done by a girl named Avital Shalev, from 12th grade.
She covered the top of raw concrete walls - structures given as a form of 'protection from rockets and other projectiles'. The umbrellas were placed on top to add to the feeling of "safety". It's a good project, colourful for the first few months, flimsy as time goes by. It's an accurate statement of how it feels to be with no real protection in an environment of vulnerability.

I might interview her about that piece and how she feels about it now.

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Post by gypsyjoker » June 18th, 2008, 10:07 am

I wondered what the pretty colors were.

Well Hamas has held on this long in spite of our best efforts to undo their election.

I only hope j, my uncle abe used to tell me live in hope and die in despair.

That's my bit of cheerful optimism for the day,

I lost the link to the article about that word "op-tessimisim" See if I can find it.
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Post by gypsyjoker » June 19th, 2008, 9:33 am

Today, he shuns the 40th anniversary hoopla surrounding his Jerusalem apartment. Does he still believe in peace? He says with a grin, " A Palestinian writer coined the word 'Op-tessimist' — someone who is both optimist and pessimist. I'm that, too. I still have hope, but now I'm more realistic."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... 48,00.html
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Post by judih » June 20th, 2008, 10:10 am

i'm just back from an overnight in Jerusalem. What a joy to sleep soundly.
But back home, I think the folks have been sleeping under similar sweet silence - not sure, but it could be there's still an ongoing truce.

optimistic/pess/optimistic
i'm still hedging labels, still t, but thanks for that quote.

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Post by Dave The Dov » June 20th, 2008, 2:17 pm

What kind of soup did he have while he was there???? You should interview her I would like read what she said about it.
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Post by judih » June 27th, 2008, 7:42 am

1. Mushroom soup.

2. Interview with Avital Shalev. Click here:
http://talkingnow.wordpress.com/2008/06 ... nd-artist/

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Post by stilltrucking » December 23rd, 2008, 5:17 pm

nothing much ever happens here to eye witness too
Spent some time down loading maps of Palestine Israel
And Nir Oz

I hid your CD from myself, no I mean I put it in a special place, now I am finally ready to listen I can't find it. Probably means I need to clean up. I got a book on Feng Shui for my birthday. But it is more than I can deal with. But I will get a compass and do what I can.

is it dark there yet it must me in the middle night of the night

three in the afternoon here, sixty degrees, kind winters here.

I have no idea what language means anymore. As I try to keep up with conflicting news reports, hundreds of missles in the last month one says and another says hamas to extend truce for another 24 hours. Extend what I truce I wonder if hundreds of rockets have fallen.

Split pea and Carrot soup , cooking now.

I found an old friend from the circus I drove for Delhi

Other than that no news worth mentioning here. Which my folks use to say was good news.

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Post by Doreen Peri » December 23rd, 2008, 6:56 pm

i promised judih I'd upload her poems from the CD to the studio server a long time ago.... but i hid it from myself, too, jack.... sighh...

i guess i need to clean up too

apologies, judih... when i run across it, i will follow through with my promise

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Post by judih » December 24th, 2008, 12:22 am

kids, kids...

not to worry. one day there'll be another small collection and another group of sound files.
what was recorded, was recorded then. there's always a new way to speak the word.

my advice? Do it yourself. Read the pomes aloud.
There's an online sound file host i'm gonna play with. if i manage to upload, i'll link it.

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Post by jimboloco » December 29th, 2008, 4:05 pm

oh boy
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yo ho ho an a bottle of rum om[/color]

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Post by stilltrucking » March 12th, 2009, 11:07 pm

A: Maybe. During the time that I was working on it, there were many qassams. I think doing this work helped me deal with that. But this particular piece is not about dealing with things but rather expressing a political statement about our reality.
Reality seems grim to me J, but you know what an optipessimist I am.

Obama appointee shot down,
No mention of the guys views on China and Tienanmen Square, just us.

I like my new tag line a lot, I stole it from izzy.

The bit about the shaky wall is my addition.

Well I see that it is near spring again
I need to a tend to my
thistles and marigolds

March is coming in like that a carnivore
And we are pleased for not being parched
rain rain rain
running all around my brain.

Rose of Sharon before by my front door is sprouting
and my hai tree is clinging to a few tiny leaves
no idea why I call it hai, pronounced "high"

Spooky old tree, I see faces in the trunkI almost saw a haiku too.

lightning struck twisted'
one mighty limb clings to life
Mesquite sanity




I got a half a pot of primordial soup
and the living is easy

oh and I got a dog
this one female
low maintenance compared to that little vicious Pekingese I had to put down. Lordy I can't even deal with the death of a dog.

that is how it is on the home front
here
no rattles
just planes trains and ambulances
and the sound of keys being typed

I don't know why I just thought of you?

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Post by judih » March 13th, 2009, 12:08 am

appreciate the thoughts, still-t
and love the haiku
organically fine

the quote from Avital is apt.
Her installation consisted of a wildly stacked bunchof colourful umbrellas above concrete walls. Those walls were plopped down one day by a massive crane, right between the machine shop workshop and the art studios. She decided that the protection was a joke, a colourful chaplin-like joke.
Now that the new school is being built, a school that is fortified to a a point that is deemed acceptable by the Security Ministry, Avital's work no longer stands.
The artwork we have is on benches or on walls or in kids' notebooks.

We still express, but most of it goes on inside.

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