I really enjoyed the WIZO meeting this morning, just talking with people.
For lunch, I had falafel at Mercaz Big.
In the afternoon and evening, I began to think more seriously about what I need to do next. I've come up with some tentative ideas and plans, but I'm not ready to talk about them quite yet. I WILL say, though, that leaving Israel is out of the question!
Today story about David is actually quite amazing:
Stories about David: Achieving His Impossible Dream
For many years, David saw a wonderful psychotherapist named Nancy Weston z”l. I don’t know how it started exactly, but I do know that this amazing woman and very professional counselor treated him from many years, beginning long before I met him and continuing for quite some time after, all completely free!
When he was still blind and quite sick, she asked him what he wanted, what his goals were (according to what David told me, much later, of course). He told her that he wanted a partner, a house, a car, and a driver’s license. I can just picture what must have gone on in her mind at that point -- something like: “Are you crazy?!?” Of course, I’m sure she didn’t say that to him directly.
It’s a good thing he never told me this story, though, until much later. In fact, he DID get all these things. I was the partner, we DID buy a house (and then another one), we eventually had TWO cars, and, of course, he did get a driver’s license (though only in California, never in Israel).
This was the kind of dogged determination that David practiced through his whole life. Even on his deathbed, they had to tie his hand to keep him from foolishly trying to get up and go!
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