Too much

Full moon

 It's been 31 degrees and above the past few days. The sun is scorching. But the nights are very cool and breezy. The muezzin starts singing the call to prayer at 3.30am (2.30am legal time) and it was noticeably louder these past nights ... perhaps because of the tensions around the City. A lot more arabs from around the country are flocking into the Old City for weekend prayers these weeks ... a reaction to the Jews entering the Al Aqsa mosque compound. By 4am the compound is full of young and old praying.

This morning was a mad house. I had so many things going on at the same time, it was out of control. 2 phone calls at the same time, a team of conservators and restorers to study the state of some of our antique books and a visiting professor from the University who wanted to see our books. Then another call to help a seminarian change money, another message to say someone is leaving old clothes with me for the poor, another series of messages asking if I have a place in the car to bring them to Tel Aviv tonight for the solemn Mass at 8pm, then the chinese sisters calling to ask if I can find rooms for them in Tel Aviv tonight because they want to join in the Mass there too, two workers came to ask me to bring them to a convent where they must do repairs, booking the car to bring us to Tel Aviv for the Mass, looking for another car for tomorrow to bring us back ...... it's one of those days where things are totally out of control.  I'm too old to handle this stress.

Cherries

Anyway it's preparation time for Mass in Tel Aviv. I'm exhausted so I need to rest a little before the solemn Mass there.

One consolation after all this stress ... I got lots of fruit to eat! Mini-apricots and cherries! Grapes also! And vanilla ice cream! Weekend will be great with these summer fruit!