I just reread my last message to you from September, which pretty much began by saying it had been a trying summer. Then I reread my message from the end of last year, which mentioned it had been a trying fall, mainly because of my tennis elbow pain. Are all years "trying" now?
Looking back, I feel the challenges I have been presented with keep outdoing each other. Needless to say, the events of October 7 in Israel topped everything else, and I found myself rendered speechless. Our freshly married son had just moved to Israel in September and now is at war.
I have ample reason
to make worrying my 24/7 activity, and believe me, there are days when that is the case. In general, however, this is not my style. So, I am keeping a diary, and I've been saving articles and images for a scrapbook. Largely, however, I have found myself, as I said, speechless. I am trying to process what's going on, what calamity as befallen the Jewish people, yet again. And I am trying to help in other ways than writing.
