Tikkun Olam

There is nothing like anticipating the month of May as the beginning of Spring, and with it new blooms, budding trees, planting beautiful flowers and yummy vegetables in your garden--in short, the annual beginning of new life.  NOT.  I live in Denver (nuf said?).  For those who are not in the know, it can snow in Denver any month of the year, except maybe July. This year, today, May 1st, it snowed.  The temperature was 27.8 degrees .  The snow began after 3:00 a.m. here (I got up to go to the bathroom--I'm of that age) when I went to look out of the bedroom window.  It was just starting to precipitate, and the walk beside our townhome which winds itself around the complex looked slightly damp. I should have taken a picture of our patio covered in snow, but I'm just a bit blase over this.  On the one hand, I was really, really hoping for warm weather--and then we had some, over this past weekend, the last weekend in April.  It was over 70 degre...

Want to buy a new 2010 model Chevy in Gaza? You'll have to pay $45,000 , twice what they cost in Egypt.  Cars were on the banned list because of the Egyptian/Israeli blockade of goods, until now: Israel is now allowing cars in.  But wouldn't you know it? Hamas and Fatah can't agree on who's in charge of the car import business.  So meanwhile, while they're squabbling, the cars are being smuggled in through those secret tunnels. What I find significant, is something you might miss, if you're not paying attention: listen carefully, especially at around .30-45.  That Sky News reporter could have had himself a free Chevy, if he had gotten the dealer out of Gaza . Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. . . in Hamastan (bet he'd like to move to Israel, though).