mmm dates.. i always forget to write them down...
here are some pieces of my mind:

A LOVE LETTER TO A SUICIDE BOMBER
your ciggarette smoke in my mouth. i see a thousand reflections in the crowd. it is as if i am in the holocaust musuem again, staring at mirrored candles. i was tired until i saw you all, until i felt the energy and struggles of my people mixed with the tears of the dead sea; the lava of the gollan; rainbows in the galalee; kings and queens of the desert democracy, the paradox of the jewish state. post-modern klezmer ska sticks in the air and people jump everytime the drum goes BOOM, and people jump anytime they hear BOOM. diaspora consciousness constantly replaces itself.

-=-

today we take jerusalem, we drink its wares of high holy holy hee and let it all go down. we are running on top of international time, soaking it all in. people are so so so welcoming here and everyone asks us to call it home. yest3erday i arrived in east jerusalem and imerged into a state of culture shock. after a week of zionist brainwashing i arrive in a place where just saying the word israel is verging on offensiveness, yet everyone tells me that i am home! no wonder there are so many jewish ISM'ers! where else can jews and arabs break hubus together besides palestine? after a day of heavey training and lectures, food, coffee, ciggarettes, and tea we arrived at a hotel covered with pictures of baby jesus. we stayed up late watching videos off the office's laptop..... people being shot at, children throwing stones, interviews with families... we are going to marda tomorrow and it seems like a neat place... they used to have a permaculture institute there but it was closed due to shooting from settlers., the wall is being built right through their village and there have been a number of soldiers and bulldozers coming in and uprooting olive trees over the last few days. i know that the village has contact with the international womyn's peace service so that is very cool. i think i will volunteer with them the next time i come to palestine!