Django

It's amazing how hard work clips along when you have some thing special to look forward to. Went to Tel Aviv tonight to see Swing De Gitan and to enjoy some dancing at the Jaffa pishpeshuk.
Oh. Wow.
This band is amazing. Oh the pleasure! Oh the joy, of gypsy swing played oh-so-right! Another rendezvous at Max Brenner topped off the night.

Right now, it's just a delirium of deliciousness.

A Different Wall

Walls, security fences, blockades, and others in that family of construction are often in the news, both back home in California and here in Israel. Today I took some time to look at the walls my brother is building. Using rough hewn stones, he is building a three walled room as a replication of an ancient building, to be used as a lecture area. I'm amazed at the progress he's made in the past month; it's such a puzzle fitting the stones together and physically strenuous, because they are set by hand.

One more reason to be so very proud of my amazing brother.

Falling Behind

Wow. If you go to a goodbye party after eating yummy middle eastern food, and stay hanging out until 12:30am, and then get up at 4am--as per tradition--to see the same person off at their airport taxi, followed by a 5:30am prayer meeting and work from 8am to 3pm, you will be a zombie. A satisfied, but non-functioning remnant of humanity.

I really thought I left those days behind me after college.