The irony The irony

This Guardian article reads like a comedy piece; though the humour is painfully cruel, and, if anyone in the world still sees the Middle East War as something that doesn't concern them, it's maybe time to wake up.

Khoda Hafez

Learned only this evening from our friend Ruti (Jewish Iranian-born mom of Noam Shuster Eliasi) about Erfan Tahmasbi's song Khodahafez, that apparently became a kind of anthem of the popular uprising, as it could so easily be repurposed to express grief for victims of the regime.

Bad smell

Something is dead in the rafters; no doubt one or more of those noisy rats that were fraying our nerves and probably the electrical cables.

Warternity

Once again, the troubles in the Middle East are everybody's problem and prove that nobody can live in a bubble. Eleven billion dollars blown in a few days, oil resources, data centers, desalination plants, the world's economy all being hit.

Walk home

When my wife and I went for an early morning stroll out the village, I noticed that the air was crisp and the weather fine for walking, so after my 12:00 Sunday dentist's appointment at Dr. Walid's in Abu Ghosh, I left the car with my wife and walked home from Shoresh. It's a distance of only 14 km but with sharp descents and an elevation difference or around 400 m. A couple of poor choices when following OsmAnd and Google Maps lengthened the trip, and I got home at 16:30.