Friday, 19 August 2016

I got up early this morning and took a nice walk around the big loop. The full moon was really beautiful this morning, but a little hard to photograph nicely. I took several pictures, but I couldn't decide between the full moon shot showing the 6 Shakhamon high-rises and the sunrise show, so I'll include them both as today's pics of the day:

On my way back, I stopped, as always, at the local bakery to buy a couple of small challot for Shabbat.

Before my class today, I did the weekly household chores.

I taught only one 2-unit Berlitz lesson today: 11:30-1:00.

I had 3 beets, a cucumber, a tomato, and 2 cheese sandwiches (with mayo and Dijon mustard on whole-wheat bread) for lunch at home today. Delicious and nutritious!

In the afternoon, I was mostly fairly lazy, but I did get some important touch-up work done on my orchestral setting of Avinu Malkenu.

In the evening, I lit candles, drank a little sweet red wine, and ate challah to welcome another Shabbat.

I walked a total of 7.35 kilometers today.

I leave you today with Hannah Senesh's beautiful poem, "Walk to Caesarea", a musical setting of which will be included on my upcoming album of orchestral music:

אלי, אלי

שלא ייגמר לעולם

החול והים

רישרוש של המיים

ברק השמיים

תפילת האדם

My God, my God

May these things never end:

The sand and the sea,

The rush of the waters,

The crash of the heavens,

The prayer of the human.