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Gaza on my mind
I remember Gaza in 1998. I was traveling with a group sponsored by Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam/the Oasis of Peace. A unique village in Israel where Palestinian and Jewish Israelis lived in community sending their children to the same school where they learned each other’s language, history and customs. Our tour included Gaza. Abject fear made me…
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Turtle Dance 2020
1/2/20 Dear friends, It’s a quiet overcast snowy morning in Taos. The world is ready for a restorative slumber before the buds of spring burst fourth. I’m feeling blessedly peaceful. Yesterday I went to Taos Pueblo for the Turtle Dance, the first dance of the New Year, a dance I have gone to for as long…
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Hurricane Irma and the Six-Day War
Although Hurricane Irma, the fiercest tempest ever spawned by the Atlantic Ocean is now a collective memory and a historical footnote, it impacted me deeply. I found myself reliving one of the more terrifying moments in my life—hunkered down in a basement apartment in Ramallah hiding with a Palestinian family during a war that changed…
Through My Eyes 