I attended / sat through seven end-of-the-year school events this year. Six of them were at the WAS-NS primary school and I was there to take pictures. I do the same every year. The children perform various plays, skits, dances. The teachers show slide shows and talk about the past year. Parents read out long …
This morning went to take pictures of the art workshop for the kids from Tulkarm – most of them are from the refugee camp. They arrived yesterday, and their main activity was to create some paintings, together with children from the WAS-NS school. Roos, A woman from the Dutch Embassy, which sponsored the project, came …
I worked for hours on the problem of posting via the Flock web browser, before discovering via Google that it was necessary to create an .htaccess file with the lines: <Files xmlrpc.php> SecFilterInheritance Off </Files> Reference: http://codeinzen.net/2007/10/27/xml-rpc-issue-with-wordpress/ That works for Flock. The Drivel blog editor still doesn’t work for me, however. Blogged with the Flock …
Today I started a new version of the hieronymouse blog under WordPress. My purpose in changing the blog over from the SPIP CMS was to enable some additional features I’d been missing, like writing through third-party software. There is no auto-magical way of importing the old material from SPIP so, in the meantime, that will …
Daughter Ella left for Barcelona this afternoon, to meet up with the Rainbow gathering, currently near the town of Leon. Doesn’t seem like long since she came home from India. Europe will be different for her. During her year in Sicily, she didn’t travel very much – now it’s another phase in her life. One …
One of the things I like about my job is that I never know exactly what I’m going to be doing on a particular day. But today I did, since Ahmad had asked me the evening before to escort a guest, who is here in order to represent a family foundation, to various places from …
Today, a beautiful spring day, we had a Day of Mindfulness at the Spiritual Centre. As usual, I participated for half the day, staying till lunch. Two nuns from Plum Village, who happened to be in the country, led the retreat. The DVD excerpt from a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, from the Breath of …
I’ve lived in Israel for 30 years but somehow evaded a visit to Yad VaShem, the Jewish Holocaust remembrance museum. My youngest son is now in his final year of high school – the year when Israeli schools place an emphasis on holocaust studies – and the teacher invited parents along for a day at …
I was looking today at peace studies courses (TRANSCEND Peace University and Coventry University Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies) in order to consider study possibilities. The situation around here (Israel / Palestine) grows worse from day to day, and I am beginning to feel a need to gather new perspectives on the situation here. …
Happy Super Tuesday, Americans. In Israel/Palestine it’s just an ordinary day but, as in every other corner of the world, many are watching the long and creaky old election process with bated breath. We know that the next president won’t bring salvation or even undo much of the damage of the incumbent. All the candidates …