Bonaventure feast

A barley loaf

Yes the heatwave is definitely upon us. At 4am I went out to buy barley bread for the community and it was already hot ... about 30 degrees. At 8am I walked out to the other library but halfway there I gave up and came home. It was 34 degrees. A strong wind is blowing but it is scorching. Probably a southerly wind from the desert. It's making my breathing difficult and my head is very dizzy. I'll stay indoors for the rest of the day ... but not before watering the plants first. Already a couple of plants have withered in this heat. Right now I can see from my window the yellow sky ... yellow from the desert sand.

It's the feast of St. Bonaventure today. It should have been on July 15th but being a Sunday it had to be postponed a day later ... but Monday was the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel so Bonaventure had to be moved to today. I bought the barley loaves from the 24 hr bakery ... and they were freshly baked at 4am and cost only 2.50 shekels each. Outside in the stalls they are sold for 5 shekels.  The guys here like it. It's whole grain and nutritious and good for most of us diabetics. So it's Bonaventure Barley Bread today. Nice ring to it.

Right now I can't enter my fb page. It's been hacked again ... like for the umpteenth time. My server has locked me out because someone was using my IP and changed the configurations. Lot of illegal hacking going on and there is little we can do. But just so you all know ... most if not all my social media, computers and phone are hacked, tapped and controlled.

There's a newspaper report that in 2018 there were 4 million tourists to Israel. Of these, 54.9% are christians and 42.8% are catholics. A total of $6 billion was brought into the country. My question is: is the local christian community benefitting from this? Why are catholic guides impeded from guiding catholic groups? Our chinese catholic priests and nuns who guide are harassed by local Israeli chinese guides ... even threatened. There is grand conspiracy and manipulation in all this. There is great injustice.  https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/15/over-four-million-tourists-spent-nearly-6-billion-in-israel-in-2018/?fbclid=IwAR3ibbWF2u5oHWU9LcjFpaqY_GDQm3tjDuy8BX_nmY8wjZVv2W8awvQgC48