Observations about life in Israel from a Canadian immigrant's perspective.
Sometimes I feel like I am losing the plot. Be it my garden plot, the Israel plot, and the state of the world plot, nothing makes sense. And with no solution in sight, I am resigned to an interminable hope that peace will come. Someday. Somehow. These are the times that drive me into my… Continue reading Sisyphean Gardening
Here in Israel, life hangs on a thread. Everything that is deemed normal or routine has come to a standstill. Each morning, feeling grateful after a night’s sleep in a bed and not in a bomb shelter, I awaken to a reality of unknown, untouchable fear. When I am asleep (unless I am woken up… Continue reading Planting For Hope
The heat is beyond belief. As I am new to this part of Israel, I am not sure whether this is normal or whether the whole world is burning up. To do any work in the garden, we must now get up before 5am, a time when the chickens stir, the roosters cock-o-ri-coo, and both crickets… Continue reading Don't Count Your Chickens (or Melons) Till They're Hatched
“They too have to eat.” These were Yuval’s compassionate words regarding sharing our organic greens with other critters. As we stand over buckets of water, dunking and swirling heads of lettuce, our feet in mud and our hands covered in caterpillar refuse and aphids, I keep trying to remember these words.Last Thursday, we were up… Continue reading They too have to eat
Life in Israel 