Autumn has come

Sweet consolation or death by
diabetes

What a terrible day .... have been feeling very very nauseous and dizzy all day. No idea why. Definitely not the heat as it's quite cool. {perhaps it's all the tensions building up. School starts next week .... more pressure. Summer holidays are over and I haven't had one day of vacation. And the anxiety of riots and more violence next week when the Jewish Holy Days begin .... I'm cracking up. Life seemed a lot easier in the past, not because there were no tensions and wars ... it's just that my stress-resistance has worn down. There is only so much I can take ... and the last straw always breaks the camel's back.  Then again someone suggested that it could be the side-effects of the medicine I'm taking for the subluxed shoulder. It's still hurting but not as much. Sleeping remains an agony as I cannot put any weight on the right shoulder ... it'll pop out of the socket again.

Today the new "obedience" was released. It's the transfers and new jobs that each of us will get for the next 3 years. Many have been fretting over the weekend because no one knows what to expect. Today we all got the news. Happy for some, sad for some. But it's an obedience ... we have to follow it.

Olive trees are
pruned

Yesterday I took some time to walk to East Jerusalem to say hi to a friend. Haven't seen him for quite some time ... he runs a bakery and usually has fresh bourekas (puff pastry stuffed with various things) and all other sorts of treats. His wife and baby were also at the shop ... first time I've met them. I noticed there was a tray of doughnuts ... very very tempting. But the thought of rising sugar levels and its consequence stopped me from buying one.

It's autumn ... fruit are being harvested and trees are being pruned. The olive trees in the parks have been pruned already. It's a bit early because usually the municipality allow the poor arab families to come and pick the olives first. This year nobody had any as the trees and fruit were pruned and discarded quickly away.