Mist

Mt of Olives and sunrise all
smothered by the heavy mist

We woke up to a very very foggy morning ... the Mt. of Olives was not visible, not even the sun rising behind it. And the western half of the City was equally enveloped by the mist. And it was very cold. The temperature dropped to 4 degrees during the night. The rains had stopped though but the cold lingers.

After the mist lifted, a brilliant sunshine slapped the City awake. Kids were out in the streets again, the Suq (markets) were busy with buyers and sellers. Life back as usual.

Perhaps too much life back as usual. This morning the Monastery of the Cross was again vandalised by fanatic Jews - the 2nd time this year. They sprayed "Price Tag" (meaning revenge for dismantling settlements in Palestinian land) and "Jesus is a bastard". I wonder what would happen if someone sprayed an equivalent insult on a synagogue. And for the record, the vandals who burnt the Trappist Monastery chapel doors, vandalised the same Monastery of the Cross previously, the Last Supper Chapel etc.... they were never caught after 1 year. But in 2 hours the guys who planted the bomb in a Tel Aviv bus was arrested. Disturbing and unsettling discrepancy.

Well things are not too good healthwise either. Asthma every night. Dreadful pain in the right shoulder and neck. And today I had to work extra hard in the library as some employees were sick. I'm so very tired. Wish the mist would wrap me up and set me to a long painless sleep for once.