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 25 Jun 2006 @ 17:53
[link]
How it happened: Militants infiltrated post via 300m tunnel
By Haaretz Staff
The gunmen launched their attack at approximately 5:00 A.M. Eight militants infiltrated Israeli territory via a tunnel adjacent to the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing. More >
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 5 May 2006 @ 06:30
In which life moves from remembering death to celebrating life - to the concept of 'i am' to the realization of 'i am not'.
There's a glorious irony that Israeli Remembrance Day, when we remember fallen soldiers - all friends, relatives, students, colleagues, gives rise to Israeli Independence Day - the 58th year of statehood and the reason for our greatest joy.
That strange second when one ceremony ends and other begins is always a snap of the fingers. Our kibbutz ceremony went from remembering our roots to gazing into the sky, as we enjoyed a 6 minute display of fireworks shot into the dark sky from the roof of our beautiful communal dining room. Sometime during the switch from ground to sky, I caught the flu.
So, with a dubious song in my heart, I excused myself from joining the communal singing in the pub - even though my son was to play guitar after the 'singers' grew hoarse and/or quiet enough to listen. I went home, drank tea and went to sleep. School the next day - had to rest.
The next morning, I gathered my forces to teach, to create magic juice in the hearts of my students to help them digest the particular english structure of 'I am..' In this special, special ed class, the 'I am...' unit has been going on for some length.
We've investigated it from the point of view of name, age, nationality and present moment states such as hunger, boredom and tiredness. We have used the southpark caricature site to build our own self-portraits. We have computered, written and spoke.
And yesterday, the day in question, I brought along Counting Crowes singing 'Colorblind' with the wonderful line, 'I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am...fine' More >
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 3 May 2006 @ 06:41
"Across the globe, people are helping the March of Genocide."
click onto Fiore's latest political animation:
On the March More >
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 29 Apr 2006 @ 04:59
Go to Neil's site: [link]
and listen to his new album:
Living with War, Neil Young More >
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 13 Apr 2006 @ 16:02
Poets! Photographers!
Come jam!
Welcome to
The Let Me GO! Image-ination Word Jam
This will be an Illustrated Spontaneous Writing Travelogue.
Read the Invitation and More About the Jam Here About the Jam
How Do We Do it?
1- Post your image to start a new thread.
2- Please note that you must own your images or have permission to post them. If you do not own the image but have permission to post it from the artist or photographer, please credit the artist or photographer and link to their site if they have one.
3- Your images must reside somewhere on the internet so you have a URL to reference them. Try [link] . (or flickr.com)
Use the Img tab at the top of the posting window. Click the Img button 2x and two tags will appear. Post the URL to the image between the tags.
4- After you post your image to start a new thread, others will be inspired by your image to write spontaneous poetry or prose and others will be inspired by the writings to add their own writings.
This is our second Image-ination Travelogue. We did another one last summer called "Summer Home, Summer Not" and it was a great success!
WELCOME!
To see the existing threads, click here More >
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