My apologies to all and sundry (but in particular to my fellow Israelis) for ignoring the war on my blog. My excuses are as follows: it is year-end and I am an accountant; I just got internet at home yesterday and ...I do not know exactly what to say.
I will think of something and post it later, but in the meantime:
1) This guy is saying part of what I am thinking, and very well.
2) Jack has pulled together a collection of what everyone else is saying.
3) This video says a bit more of what I am thinking.
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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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- Roxie the Diet does not like weekends. That is bec...
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- Were they trying to be funny?
- Update on Keshet's relief work in Sderot
- If you will allow me a brief primal scream...
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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:
It would have sounded more plausible if you would have written of being stuck in a local pub for the past weeks, because of your admiration for the ..........ceiling in this magnificocent place.
Far more persuasive than much of what has been said....
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