Hello, again! Long time, no see. In these endless days of monotonous chaos, I have been having wild dreams. Carrying the screen around an movie theater at Donald Trump’s autobiographical blockbuster. Being scolded for breaking a runner’s leg. Usually, I’m doing ordinary things with people I haven’t seen in years. And then, I wake up …
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Frohe Weihnachten
It didn’t rain until I had already been here for over two months. Since the first storm came through in mid-October, the sandy ground has become overgrown with beautiful green grass and the dry canals in the mango and olive plantations turned into rushing streams. Before heading out to the desert for a leisurely mid-December …
Make Hummus, Not Walls
The past couple weeks have proved to be quite the holiday season for the Jewish calendar. It started with the Jewish New Year celebration of Rosh Hashanah, continued with the day of atonement Yom Kippur, and finished with the weeklong agricultural thanksgiving celebration of Sukkot. On the weekend of Rosh Hashanah, I took advantage of …
Dirty work
Three weeks in, and I’m finally sitting down to write a little bit about my time in Israel. It’s not that I’ve been terribly busy, but rather I’ve forgotten how to write without a set deadline. Who would have thought that procrastination exists outside of school? Better late than never, I guess. Anyway, with this …
In Retrospect 