Getting older, higher, and more lucid

As I get older, flying make me think of God/Death. Maybe because up is up or maybe up is high or up is good or up is heaven. Maybe because flying always happen when one is too tired or tired or up tired.

So being so old, when I see a movie on someone else’s phone, it makes me think of violence. How come it is ok to watch and see two people beating each other on a film? If violence is not legitimate, let’ do an exercise, and get rid, or ban, all movies with violence in them. How many movies are we going to have left for our flights? 10 percent? 5? Ok, too expansive. Let’s just ban those movies that have extreme violence in them, that including bodily harm and visible physical death in them, how many movies do we have left now? Violence is so normal that we are seeing it as entertainment all the time.
I know, the movie the person saw, which included a beheading with a knife, was a critical movie of the society in which it happens. For sure, this is the main reason we have violence in movies. And I know that violence has always existed.

Let’s not forget, the third story of the bible was about one person killing his brother. But hey, that was God’s fault. God, an all-knowing entity, decided not to accept Cane’s gift. What did he think would happen? What, God was not able to forsee Cane’s frustration, jealousy, rage, for the poor treatment It gave Cane? It is part of the Genesis God being complete pity, petty, lunatic, God, who is also not that smart. That is, after he punishes Cane, Cane needs to explain to God that his punishment will not work and will have unintended consequences, so God needs to adjust the punishment and give Cane a sign, so the punishment will actually work.

Someone suggested I publish my interpretation of bible stories, which I rejected, but thinking of jews reading the stories every year a fresh, it is clear why interpretation and critical thinking may happen. How can you read the same story every year, not understanding it is not the same story, not understanding that you are not the same, not

I’m diverging, yes, God is a lunatic in Genesis. Yes, he creates violence every other episode, the bully (read its interaction around the fruit of knowing right-from-wrong). But violence on airplanes makes me understand that we accept violence in such a profound way, that maybe driving is better. To the environment. And to my lucidity.

Here at Amherst

1. the slogan of the town of Amherst is
“I amherst.”
Am I the only one who hears that as
I am hearse?

2. speaking of hearse and Amherst,
what will happen to a college town whose
college decided not to bring students to town?
We went to downtown, playing business bingo.
High horse – closed, Judy’s – closed until further notice,
Subway – open, Antonios (yea, a pizza place, of course) – might survive.
Oh, finally a business that will stay,
the funeral home across from CVS!

3. As someone who learned about the US from mainly
watching the little house on the prairie, 5:30 pm on the Israeli only TV channel,
the show that people got blind and miraculously recovered, or vice versa,
I remember that every now and again,
the entire town, or village, will be wiped out,
due to famine, extreme weather, or a small pandemic;
half of the town would die and the town and
whoever survived the pandemic, famine, or extreme weather,
will start over elsewhere
(mamash gush katif!).
Walking in downtown Amherst,
I can not think of Little House in the Prairie, half and wiping out half towns and their businesses.
(although now I know that this was basically cliff hangers at the ends of TV seasons
and that killing some characters was since the actors did not agree to take pay cuts).

The Porcupine

The Porcupine.

Today we paid tribute to an important member of our life.

The Porcupine.

I didn’t know him well. I didn’t know him at all. The Porcupine.

None of us really knew him well. None of us knew him at all. The Porcupine.

He was already dead when Shiri first saw him. But the kids wanted him to be alive. The Porcupine.

So Shiri decided he was alive.

But then, it was confirmed.

It was actually dead.

The Porcupine.

This morning they buried him.

At least, that is what the neighbor’s boy said.

The Porcupine.

After visiting the “no-longer broken but still need some fixing” bridge,

The Neighbor’s boy insisted we need to go to The Porcupine.

We headed to the burial site of The Porcupine.

There, we all said a few words about The Porcupine.

Because, as Gavahn explained, that what you do when someone dies.

The Porcupine.

Some have called him Porky. The Porcupine.

I think it is a pig’s name. but still.

Rest in Peace.

The Porcupine.

The Porcupine.

The Porcupine.

Today we paid tribute to an important member of our life.

The Porcupine.

I didn’t know him well. I didn’t know him at all. The Porcupine.

None of us really knew him well. None of us knew him at all. The Porcupine.

He was already dead when Shiri first saw him. But the kids wanted him to be alive. The Porcupine.

So Shiri decided he was alive.

But then, it was confirmed.

It was actually dead.

The Porcupine.

This morning they buried him.

At least, that is what the neighbor’s boy said.

The Porcupine.

After visiting the “no-longer broken but still need some fixing” bridge,

The Neighbor’s boy insisted we need to go to The Porcupine.

We headed to the burial site of The Porcupine.

There, we all said a few words about The Porcupine.

Because, as Gavahn explained, that what you do when someone dies.

The Porcupine.

Some have called him Porky. The Porcupine.

I think it is a pig’s name. but still.

Rest in Peace.

The Porcupine.