Archive for August, 2006

for Meira

Posted by Ree on August 28th, 2006

Meira, Meira - if you read this, please give us a call. Franklin and I both lost our phones (they’ve been replaced now, but alas without your number), and I can’t find your email address. We’re thinking about you a lot, and miss you.

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somebody told me

Posted by Ree on August 11th, 2006

PomegranateWe planted the tree about a year ago, and didn’t really think that it would bear fruit so soon. For one thing, we never water it. It’s a scawny, ugly little thing. So imagine my surprise the other day when standing in the back yard I noticed that our little pomegranate tree had produced one massive fruit. The thing is huge, it had bent the fecund branch almost all the way to the ground.

My husband must have noticed it too, because this morning when I went downstairs it was sitting on the kitchen counter. How odd that such a young neglected tree would choose to put all it’s energy into a single fruit.

The pomegranate is a symbol of righteousness and fertility. I wonder what this pomegranate means for us.

Apparently there’s a war going on here. You couldn’t tell by looking out of our window. It’s Friday night now, and the streets are quiet. We can hear the neighbors singing Shabbat songs, welcoming in the day of rest that marks another week as completed.

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