Actually it is 3:30 am, tuesday here in Israel, though it is still Monday night in Ohio. I am having a blastolla! Yehuda is a most gracious host, and is giving me lavish amounts of Alexander technique lessons.
I arrived Saturday evening after a tushy torture of a flight. Jet lag, couldn't sleep much . Used EFT and think it helped. Today we went up to Jerusalem in the car, about an hour's drive even with heavy traffic at times. Israel seems wonderful, beautiful, prosperous. the weather is mild, sixties and seventies. today at last the winter rains arrived. Everyone is sad about the devastation of the forest fire in the Carmel region. Like Israel's "Katrina"... "Why didn't the government prepare for such a thing?" Forty people were killed. Military officers in a bus driving in to fight the fire, engulfed by flames.
It is Chanukah. Just as my daughter Anna said, it is a wonderful relief to escape the Christmas buying frenzy of the US, and all that elevator music everywhere. I went to a Kuperman mishpokah chanukah party ... the food was marvelous. Potatoe kugel, roasted egg plant with tehina, gobs of stuff, all delicious. Today in Jerusalem we visited Yehuda's penthouse apartment SW of the Temple Mount, in the Abu Tor district. Tiny little streets, all golden limestone buildings, extreme cute, uber quaint and gorgeous. I am taking lots of photos. Maybe can upload them here.
We also visited Yehuda's house, in Nachalot (a district not far from the Knesset, the government buildings). More uber cute. From there we walked to a neighborhood restaurant and had fantastic warm pita bread with dips and slaw and roasted turkey shavings. Olives, pickels. I loved it!
Yehuda gave a lesson to the 48 year old son of his high school buddy Jakov, who died in the '73 war. I took a nap. then we went at 5:30 to the Monday night A.T. study group where we gave each other turns for two hours. Six teachers, all marvelous, in Sonja's tiny apartment in another neighborhood of Jerusalem. I loved it; learned a lot.
Now getting sleepy again. to bed!
Ellen Bierhorst Ph.D., M.AmSAT
Holistic Psychologist and Teacher of the Alexander Technique
513-221-1289 ~ http://www.lloydhouse.com ~
3901 Clifton Ave. Cinti., OH 45220 ~
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