and it is evening and i am lying in bed here on the 2nd floor in a 3 story apartment building in a city called Ramat Gan which means High Garden… to be able to be here for a day for an hour for a few moments gives my life more meaning and LIFE more meaning than most of the days and years and cups of starbucks soy chai lattes in cities of the countries that i work and visit. when i am here my heart sings…there is a hunger that the heart must have to request to require another beat another chance to answer the sensations of our physical and spiritual questions…and while i am tantalized by the spring this year in Besigheim the ‘spargle’ asparagus and the wonderful greens we discovered and the lucious wines and wonderful company of my new friends there….there is something that is so powerful and so deep…and so bursting with light…maybe it is the essence of God. it is no surprize that once you step off the plane that who you are is how you live and how you live is who you are…and you will move around souls that live in the moment and the cycles of this great turning of the earth their entire existence. this is one of the physically smallest countries and yet person after person it moves forward in miracles every day… it also is no surprize that sitting in traffic with no blood in my hands and my stomach in a tight burning knot…that jesus would want people to just be nice to eachother…i feel like the questions i utter and the ones that tear me apart and the ones that i don’t even know are answerable. and here who i am and who each of is…is clearly not determined by the car we drive …status is the soul and that gets measured with out human judgement for human judgement is just an opinon and fleeting like the wind across the Negev, Here the thirst that i feel even if i never get the latte…i am aware of my purpose and i am in the moment of my life - not chasing it. and though we are in the middle of the middle it is OK that is exactly as it should be.
in the middle of the middle
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May 24, 2011 at 11:33 am |
While I’m delighted to hear of your strong connection to the land and people of Israel, I hope that you’ll also find an opportunity to connect with the Palestinian people who are suffering so gravely because of Israeli aggression and occupation. As a Jew and a person of conscience I am deeply disturbed by Israeli policies which dehumanize, degrade and deny the rights of the Palestinians. We have a responsibility to work for the rights of all people.
May 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm |
beautifully “painted” for the mind, spirit, and soul to see……….thank you! safe travels to you sonia
xo kathy
June 2, 2011 at 3:43 am |
Hello Sonia
It was great seeing you at Jacobs Ladder. We hope to see you next time you come and maybe you can visit us. We live a quiet rural community not far from Ramat Gan. Your thoughts are powerful even though while living here daily (I guess) we put them aside. Yes, we are really here right now, yes, IN THE MIDDLE! Hmm. I like the way you put that. I am not sure I like being here in the middle. But here I am.
Have a great summer
Robin
Moshav Mishmeret
June 26, 2011 at 1:58 pm |
Sonia…you have moved me to tears…sweet tears of living in the moment and living for a world that works for everyone. may your love light shine…thank you for your courage, heart and love. Nan
June 26, 2011 at 2:01 pm |
Thank you Sonia for such sweet universal thoughts that touch us all if we have the courage to be…Love, Nan