Phew. This job is intense. IN-TENSE. Like camping. Like the Bedouins. Not as physically exhausting as being an outdoor Camp Counselor, but more deeply, insidiously mind-tweaking.
One of my co-workers was also in Israel last year. When we met 2 weeks ago, we chatted a bit about Jerusalem, and the Marakia (the Souperia), an excellent noshing spot in the city. She is also an HUC DropOut (also transferred to a different Rabbinical program). This bit of chat led to this led to that, and after figuring out that we knew some folks in common, I got a hunch that we had, in fact, been at the Marakia on the same night last summer. Finally, we checked her blog, lucyvincentbeach.blogspot.com (this damn software won't help me put in the real link), and look who's there!!!!!!
Sarah is the one crouching in the middle.
Meanwhile, I just tonite received an email from one of my first Hebrew School students from Coral Springs in 1997, when this whole maddening adventure began (WanderingStu celebrates 10 years of Holy Hysteria). He is back at Camp Coleman in Cleveland, Georgia, where me and Val worked the summer before I left for Israel the first time (the first time in my adult life, that is)-- when i first ended up in Bat Ayin. Here's the scrawl that marked the end of the beginning. Or vice versa.
The gentleman up top is, of course, Klaus Kinski in the role of Aguirre, the Wrath of God. I think he kinda looks like Ariel Elisha. Monkey not included.
3 comments:
who found your autograph at coleman?
what's the marakia? some of us do not understand the insider references. kindly explain.
What is with the monkey picture?
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