Beach day?
It is more than a month since Israel's rainy season ended, and it is pouring. After some awesomely hot days earlier this week, today opened with a gentle breeze and a cloud-covered sky. We had had a few drops of rain on Monday or Tuesday, and today teased a bit, then gave way with a consistent afternoon drizzle, a light drizzle that brought out that delicious moist earth smell. Now, nearing 1:00 AM, the downpour begins, with a flash of lightning and a generous crack. Nothing like the insane, whipping winds and crashing thunder of the Bat Ayin winter storms, but a real rain nonetheless.
I have plans to hit the beach in Ashkelon tomorrow afternoon, before Shabbat at the immigrant absorption center with a horde of eager Ethiopian kids. They call me "Shemesh," which means "sun," and is derived, sort of, from my Hebrew name (which most people in Israel use to address me), "Shimshon," which means "Samson," and in Hebrew via David Bowie clearly means "The Sun Machine."
On the merit of my Hebrew name and my good times with the Ethiopian kids, may we have a little sunshine over the beach tomorrow afternoon...
It is more than a month since Israel's rainy season ended, and it is pouring. After some awesomely hot days earlier this week, today opened with a gentle breeze and a cloud-covered sky. We had had a few drops of rain on Monday or Tuesday, and today teased a bit, then gave way with a consistent afternoon drizzle, a light drizzle that brought out that delicious moist earth smell. Now, nearing 1:00 AM, the downpour begins, with a flash of lightning and a generous crack. Nothing like the insane, whipping winds and crashing thunder of the Bat Ayin winter storms, but a real rain nonetheless.
I have plans to hit the beach in Ashkelon tomorrow afternoon, before Shabbat at the immigrant absorption center with a horde of eager Ethiopian kids. They call me "Shemesh," which means "sun," and is derived, sort of, from my Hebrew name (which most people in Israel use to address me), "Shimshon," which means "Samson," and in Hebrew via David Bowie clearly means "The Sun Machine."
On the merit of my Hebrew name and my good times with the Ethiopian kids, may we have a little sunshine over the beach tomorrow afternoon...
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