What happened while I was gone?
On the international stage Syria and Egypt were in the midst of civil wars, terrorist organisations were playing their part, Zimbabwe was looking forward to some illegal election antics, Iran was denying building nuclear weapons while increasing their production of nuclear weapons, the American president was under fire for taking a holiday while his people were complaining about drone attacks.
If you look at a newspaper from the day I left and another from the day I returned, you would see very little difference.
Domestically, the UN is “warning” Israel not to undermine “peace talks”. Why do they never send such warnings to Palestine? Ask Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman.
Far more interesting, but with little to no coverage from CNN, my mother was married in a quiet little ceremony in Jerusalem. She married her rabbi, whom she had been dating for only a few months. Much can be said about their brief courtship but I think at their age there is very little point in taking your time about things. They were both previously married to people with whom they thought they would live for the rest of their lives. But not everybody lives the same amount of time.
Somebody told me that it was amusing that my mother married before I did. That seems pretty normal to me. The point is supposed to be that I have been dating my intended off and on for about seven years whilst my mother and her new husband probably only hit the sheets on their wedding night. As far as I know.
I have no problem with my mother being married. She was married throughout my entire childhood. It is a different man with whom my sisters and I have a completely different relationship but she is still a mother, daughter and wife.
We’ve yet to set a date for my wedding. We are still looking at locations and where we do it will determine when. Our families vote for Jerusalem. The city is full of history and culture and is very important to our people. It is also centrally located and easy for everybody to get to. The groom votes for Tel Aviv. There are plenty of parks, beaches and five star hotels that would work and the Mediterranean is an excellent backdrop. I vote for Yam HaMelach. It is one of my favourite places and significant to our relationship. Time will tell.
In sadder news, my beloved sister crashed my beloved car. She was not injured but the car was destroyed. The cause of the accident was the simple fact that Israelis drive like idiots. The effect is that my beautiful black Chevrolet Corvette C5 Z06 is no more. I bought it in America when I moved to Israel and had it shipped at great pain and expense. It was a fine automobile that did everything I asked of it and provided years of comfort, style and serious horsepower.
The future husband suggests I get a more family orientated car. With any luck and a great deal of practise we should have children in the near future. He thinks said children should not ride around in a sports car. I think any biological children of mine would loathe a Volvo V70.
2004-2013
RIP dear friend
5 comments:
The loss of a Corvette is such a sad thing. When I retired I decided I would get either a Corvette or a Ford F-250 four wheel drive, whichever one showed up first in a local car lot with the right color. Instead, an F-350 popped up and I got it, never have had anything quite like it. Then a week later a Corvette shows up at the other end of town on a car lot! I have been told by my mechanic that I would not have liked getting in and out of the Corvette too often (with body framework, bad back). I plan to keep the F-350 forever-ish, pumped alot of money into it to make it purr perfectly leaklessly.
I vote Yam HaMelach, even though I have never been there. You can only go "up" in a relationship from there.
Now that you are back from the Mountain, which you have not mentioned in your update, I note that you have lost a sports car, your mom married and you wish to have children immediately and you have to decide where you want to live and of course you and your sister have an issue surrounding a sports car and you have decided to buy a volvo.
The only thing that I could say is good luck. I agree with your husband that a sports car is bad for kids. you need a van where you could store your soccer gear, water, diapers, snacks, school bags, climbing gear, bikes and so on.
I never like to delete comments, but it almost seems required in this case.
you must delete my comments since there are too many of the same.
It is not my fault. It is the fault of your new security system.
I am sure that I wrote all of the secret numbers etc. correctly in order to prove I was not a robot.
Each of the two times I did so, I was asked to rewrite the words. Is a number a word? your security system thinks so.
All of my posts went up, including those that did not pass the test hence all of the posts of the same posts.
So sorry. I would delete these myself but I know not how.
Consider it done. And yes, the numbers count.
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