Can you see him? Silvery white aluminum against the sky blue?
I have arrived. On my second day here in Israel, walking back from the shuk, I saw a Menorah on the road, and it moved me, so I took a picture of it. What is it? What is it doing there? Who knows. Positioned to the passersby between the billboard and the parched palm tree, its starkness is part of its beauty. A desert rose; a diamond in the rough; the heart of the country set against its quotidian landscape. This is the road in Ramla that leads into town where there is a shuk that I bought my produce at yesterday. It was such a pleasant, beautiful, sight. Both inspiring and deeply touching. It reaches out to my weary soul and puts a twinkle in my eye with its awesome gravity lit by the love of my people (or just the people that put it there:). Eretz Yisrael. I am home!
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