Going Retro...
by Adam | Monday 30 October 2006
While I was in Israel before summer (circa March 2006), I was participating in a project for www.100words.net, a site where you write an entry totaling 100 words each day for a month. Logical enough...
As I was recently looked back on this project, I remember how much I liked the entries from Israel during that part of the month. So...in lieu of substantive updates, which I've lacked for reasons I will later explain, I offer these innocuous prose offerings.
March 10, 2006
East Jerusalem is quieter than West; I wonder if theyre up to something
Afternoon coffee, American Colony Hotel: where the journalists gravitate. So surreal, all Arab, all friendly. I took a picture of a sparrow behind a tulip bed, bathing in a fountain.
I didn't fall in love with Jerusalem when I lived here. The fighting just started, no Old City, no bus-riding. You can never love a city by riding its cabs. Not even New York.
When we crossed the Green Line, I took a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Its probably the closest I'll ever get. That saddens me.
