march 7th
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 10:56 am
it's summer.
it came today like a warm slap on the head
summer means never going out after 6 a.m. , or if you do, (and i mean you, me, all of us), be prepared with towel, 1.5 litres of water, a hat, a change of shirt, underwear and pants. That would be minimum equipment for anything longer than a 10 minute stint outside.
so, it's summer. i barely saw the luscious flowering 'calaniot' or anemones decorate our fields. i barely watched the wheat grow and the harvested carrots being lugged away in an old wooden truck (that smells of rich earth even when empty of its load).
and now it's hot.
and i have to think of cool clothes
and minimum body weight all to stay as receptive as possible to possible breezes.
It's not a peaceful time in the hood right now.
when the folks realize that the only thing to stop this back and forth state of war is peace.
it's simple really.
just do it.
meanwhile, in the case of a 'red alert' or 15 second pre-rocket warning, i have nowhere to run to protect myself. The protective room was shifted to the student area. The heavy concrete reinforcements, that perhaps you've seen in Sderot on the news, are set up about 35 seconds from me.
The warning we get is 15 seconds, so my options are to simply distance myself from windows and lie on my english centre floor.
That isn't nice. But it's what it is, right now.
Other parts of the school are protected.
The kibbutz isn't. Only 3 Children's Houses have been reinforced, and they, of course, are unoccupied after 4 p.m.
So, that's the intro to summer. General anxiety, with a lot of effort towards meditation and humour to shake us all out of it.
Lucky for humour. Without it, we'd be an ad for a new radiowave.
Would love to take a Kirilian photo of the population here. That would be interesting.
it came today like a warm slap on the head
summer means never going out after 6 a.m. , or if you do, (and i mean you, me, all of us), be prepared with towel, 1.5 litres of water, a hat, a change of shirt, underwear and pants. That would be minimum equipment for anything longer than a 10 minute stint outside.
so, it's summer. i barely saw the luscious flowering 'calaniot' or anemones decorate our fields. i barely watched the wheat grow and the harvested carrots being lugged away in an old wooden truck (that smells of rich earth even when empty of its load).
and now it's hot.
and i have to think of cool clothes
and minimum body weight all to stay as receptive as possible to possible breezes.
It's not a peaceful time in the hood right now.
when the folks realize that the only thing to stop this back and forth state of war is peace.
it's simple really.
just do it.
meanwhile, in the case of a 'red alert' or 15 second pre-rocket warning, i have nowhere to run to protect myself. The protective room was shifted to the student area. The heavy concrete reinforcements, that perhaps you've seen in Sderot on the news, are set up about 35 seconds from me.
The warning we get is 15 seconds, so my options are to simply distance myself from windows and lie on my english centre floor.
That isn't nice. But it's what it is, right now.
Other parts of the school are protected.
The kibbutz isn't. Only 3 Children's Houses have been reinforced, and they, of course, are unoccupied after 4 p.m.
So, that's the intro to summer. General anxiety, with a lot of effort towards meditation and humour to shake us all out of it.
Lucky for humour. Without it, we'd be an ad for a new radiowave.
Would love to take a Kirilian photo of the population here. That would be interesting.