Riding the tiger

Lovely sunset at the junction
outside New Gate

So we enter the last week of the liturgical year. The Holy Doors in the Holy Land close only in December ... giving more pilgrims an opportunity to enter them. After all this is the land where Mercy was incarnated and fulfilled it mission on the Cross.

Advent will soon start. I think just I'll buy a small Advent wreath for the season. Keeping things simple and only sticking to essentials. I just might go on retreat.

Just read an online article claiming that asthma drugs can cause dementia. Well that might explain my recent lost of memory and disorientation episodes. But don't know how true this article is ... lots of rubbish floating around in cyberspace with no verifiction control over fact and fiction.  http://wisemindhealthybody.com/dr-axe/popular-allergy-insomnia-drugs-linked-dementia/?c=JER

More and more news are coming out saying the govt. is preparing to build thousands (literally ... some say 14,000) apartments in arab land, even expanding other illegal settlements; because they think Trump will not object ... or in fact encourage them to occupy arab lands. Things don't look good. But even though Trump is filling his govt with rightwing people ... Israel's security in having a freehand over everything because Trump will not interfere, is not guaranteed. Seeing how volatile and unpredictable Trump is, he might just wake up one day and turn against Israel. Riding the tiger is always risky.

And regarding the Holy Sepulcher, we're all waiting anxiously for the publications of the archeologists' findings. So far all research findings are hushed.