That's a very fitting new title and theme for your journal. Winter wheat has nutritional benefits, including a higher protein content. So the reward of this planting is greater...IF we we make it. I look forward to where your new adventures and reports will take us!
Supposedly it last a couple years. Also red winter wheat is an heirloom variety. I bought quite a bit when everyone started talking about Gates messing with the food supply but haven't used any. Glad I have it, although I think it would be better used in Gaza.
Hello, N.P. Good question and one I will address in a piece to be published in the next day or two. Briefly: I'm in Switzerland where I gave a talk on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. on 6 April.
Today I am rearranging my travel schedule so that I arrive in Tel Aviv on 1 May, after Passover and not a couple of days before. It pushes everything back by about two weeks. Apparently traveling in Israel-Palestine during Passover can be quite difficult. Thank you for asking. -C
Do me a favor and spend a fair amount of time listening to a broad swath of Israelis on what they think is going on, and how they feel about it. Are they considering leaving? What do they think the future of Israel entails? Do they support the far-right? Do they even worry about the future?
Of course I want to know what the Palestinians have to say most especially. But it's hard to believe that there are not any independent thinkers in the entire country of Israel. Of course that's only about 5 million, heavily indoctrinated, people. My real question is: Are they are fascistic and racist as they are portrayed (and portray themselves) online?
Also, a word of advice from a Westerner who grew up in that region, be paranoid. Leave your American naivete at home. Be paranoid. If you worry something bizarre is going on, it probably is, only worse than you are imagining. Watch for people shadowing you. If you are allowed, take lots of photos (as a good little tourist would) to capture people in the area on film. Then see if you are photographing the same people multiple times in different places. If you are, you are the recipient of serious surveillance and you need to be careful. For your sake, but especially for the sake of the people--both Israeli and Palestinian--you talk to.
WW - what's not to like - and with the cover of your moody wintry landscape of Magnuson Park - Seattle - excellent. I was driving back last night from visiting my mother (on the cusp of turning 94) who lives in a rural city some 310 km north from where I live on the Pacific Ocean coast in S-E Australia. The sun was setting to my right as I drove south - a bright golden splash from a point to the slightly north-west - emerging beneath towering and well-defined rain clouds - while to my left the nearby western slopes of the Great Diving Range were bathed in the gold (from that western torchlight). And then - weirdly - a tall spire of truncated rainbow above that. It lasted well after I could no longer see the sun - now dipped below the horizon - and high overhead from the west a pinkish glow rose up and through the layers of cloud overhead. It was splendid. Early days of autumn (fall) here in Terra Australis. Jim
Thank you, Jim! "Weirdly." That seems to be a good word to describe life in general and all the curious, astonishing things that happen -- the weird and unearthly beauty of our earthly planet. Given what you described, I would say you were "weirdly" blessed, certainly by the vision of the rainbow. What fortunate timing for your drive. (And how fortunate your mother is still with you at nearly 94.) -C
That's a very fitting new title and theme for your journal. Winter wheat has nutritional benefits, including a higher protein content. So the reward of this planting is greater...IF we we make it. I look forward to where your new adventures and reports will take us!
Thank you my dear friend.
Supposedly it last a couple years. Also red winter wheat is an heirloom variety. I bought quite a bit when everyone started talking about Gates messing with the food supply but haven't used any. Glad I have it, although I think it would be better used in Gaza.
What's the status of your trip?
Hello, N.P. Good question and one I will address in a piece to be published in the next day or two. Briefly: I'm in Switzerland where I gave a talk on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. on 6 April.
Today I am rearranging my travel schedule so that I arrive in Tel Aviv on 1 May, after Passover and not a couple of days before. It pushes everything back by about two weeks. Apparently traveling in Israel-Palestine during Passover can be quite difficult. Thank you for asking. -C
Do me a favor and spend a fair amount of time listening to a broad swath of Israelis on what they think is going on, and how they feel about it. Are they considering leaving? What do they think the future of Israel entails? Do they support the far-right? Do they even worry about the future?
Of course I want to know what the Palestinians have to say most especially. But it's hard to believe that there are not any independent thinkers in the entire country of Israel. Of course that's only about 5 million, heavily indoctrinated, people. My real question is: Are they are fascistic and racist as they are portrayed (and portray themselves) online?
Also, a word of advice from a Westerner who grew up in that region, be paranoid. Leave your American naivete at home. Be paranoid. If you worry something bizarre is going on, it probably is, only worse than you are imagining. Watch for people shadowing you. If you are allowed, take lots of photos (as a good little tourist would) to capture people in the area on film. Then see if you are photographing the same people multiple times in different places. If you are, you are the recipient of serious surveillance and you need to be careful. For your sake, but especially for the sake of the people--both Israeli and Palestinian--you talk to.
Well, Cara, you have to be able to connect to your own writing and Winter wheat is a whole lot better than ergot.
LOL! Thank you for this comment. We're living in hallucinatory times as it is. No need for ergot.
WW - what's not to like - and with the cover of your moody wintry landscape of Magnuson Park - Seattle - excellent. I was driving back last night from visiting my mother (on the cusp of turning 94) who lives in a rural city some 310 km north from where I live on the Pacific Ocean coast in S-E Australia. The sun was setting to my right as I drove south - a bright golden splash from a point to the slightly north-west - emerging beneath towering and well-defined rain clouds - while to my left the nearby western slopes of the Great Diving Range were bathed in the gold (from that western torchlight). And then - weirdly - a tall spire of truncated rainbow above that. It lasted well after I could no longer see the sun - now dipped below the horizon - and high overhead from the west a pinkish glow rose up and through the layers of cloud overhead. It was splendid. Early days of autumn (fall) here in Terra Australis. Jim
Thank you, Jim! "Weirdly." That seems to be a good word to describe life in general and all the curious, astonishing things that happen -- the weird and unearthly beauty of our earthly planet. Given what you described, I would say you were "weirdly" blessed, certainly by the vision of the rainbow. What fortunate timing for your drive. (And how fortunate your mother is still with you at nearly 94.) -C
Thank you, J.R. What a very sweet thing to say.
Good luck, J.R.!!