The last three days I received many blessings and blessed many people. What a mystical beautiful powerful act, to bless. Thinking of the blesses I got from some friends made clearer not only what these dear loving souls wish for me but also what they would like to be blessed-with themselves. We bless our common-selves outside and inside, part of a well wishing amorphous community. I guess it is stronger, perhaps more meaningful here, in this hurting bleeding impossible ParaHellAdise. In this almost unbearable existence, these good friends are life itself, the only thing that makes the absurdity all around worth enduring, accepting.

A few months ago, on the bridge above the river where thousands of coins can be seen shimmering in the clear cold water, I threw two small stones down to the river but made only one wish. Saga told me not to tell what I wished for. She also told me I have to throw money.
Standing on the river, thinking what will be the one thing, the ultimate thing to wish for, in a moment of clarity stripping all material, social, political and other technical needs and wishes from meaning, there was just one simple, basic wish (a big hunger, yearning aspiration) left.

A New Year begins today (Jewish calendar as I’m in Israel now) and a month of the major holidays (Jewish and Muslim synchronized this year perfectly).

I wish ourselves a Happy New Year filled with Love, Compassion, Wellness and Good Health, Creativity and Productivity, Challenges and Achievements, Peace and HAPINESS!