To help you guys start off this week on a lighter, brighter note than the last one....
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Life as a "Poor, Sad, Heroic, Victim of Terror"®
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About Me
- Gila
- Nice Jewish girl with a writing fetish.
Message from the Bombing Victim Muppet
I am, of course, neither sad, nor heroic nor particularly victimized. What I am is an "ordinary Joe" who was seriously injured six years ago in a suicide bombing while waiting for a bus at the Machane Yehuda open air market in Jerusalem.
Ever since I learned how to write, writing has served as a sort of therapy for me. In the months and years after the bombing, I did an enormous amount of writing. What I was thinking. What I was feeling. How the world reacted to me. How my bombed-out self reacted to the world. Some of the articles were sent to friends and relatives via email lists. Many more of them just sat on my computer. I always meant to do something with them.
Of course, I never got around to it.
This year, I promised myself that I would, at last do something. And since blogging is the best way to do something without having to do all that much (no publishers, no rejections, no work apart from editing), I decided that this was the way to go.
Please comment. I am putting these out so that people will read them. Let me know that you are reading.
Thanks.
Gila
Ever since I learned how to write, writing has served as a sort of therapy for me. In the months and years after the bombing, I did an enormous amount of writing. What I was thinking. What I was feeling. How the world reacted to me. How my bombed-out self reacted to the world. Some of the articles were sent to friends and relatives via email lists. Many more of them just sat on my computer. I always meant to do something with them.
Of course, I never got around to it.
This year, I promised myself that I would, at last do something. And since blogging is the best way to do something without having to do all that much (no publishers, no rejections, no work apart from editing), I decided that this was the way to go.
Please comment. I am putting these out so that people will read them. Let me know that you are reading.
Thanks.
Gila
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- Have been doing some serious mulling recently and ...
- What I did this Weekend, Part IV
- There has got to be another way....
- A mini post
- What I did this Weekend, Part III
- I am going to be famous!
- What I did this Weekend, Part II
- What I did this Weekend, Part I
- שבוע טוב
- Put up or shut up
- Some Heartening Stuff
- איזה סוג ניצחון?
- In honor of Binny and Rachel... Parshat Balak פרשת...
- Something new and different
- כי איתי אל Ki Iti El
- Miracle Hunting
- And now for something nice and random
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Other fun places to go
- SPONSOR ME!!! for the Wheels of Love Bike Ride to benefit Alyn Hospital!
- Alyn Hospital-Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center (aka why I spend months fundraising and then five days dragging my poor, aching ass around on a bicycle)
- Hadassah Hospital-alumnus of the ICU and the oncology, eye, ear and various other fun departments
- Nishmat-where I want to study one day...
- Hadassah-the Women's Zionist Organization of America-proud fourth generation member
- Haaretz
2 comments:
Going to make myself a far more exciting combination of icecream, Zwarte Kip Advokaat and a dot of whipped cream.
Thanks, it was not bad at all.
Cheers.
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