Live always at the edge of poetic possibilty, even in the face of severe prose. - Walter Bruggemann
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Mahane Madness
Come on! Let's go shopping.
Be sure to use all of your senses - sight - sound - taste - smell..... and don't forget to convert your dollars to shekels and ounces & pounds into grams & kilos.
Wow, you've got the shuk totally covered! Good job. Hope to bump into you there someday, maybe at the halvah stand? (I'll be the other one with the camera.) Shalom shalom.
In my next incarnation I want to be a vendor in the shuk. When we're in Jerusalem we start each day with a shopping trip to the shuk. Don't forget to try the spice shop near the south entrance.
I love the pictures of the market. Draws up all kinds of ancient feelings. How long have such markets been in existence! Aren't they at once universal and particular to their setting?
Journal. Diary. Copious Notes. Musings. Thought. Reflection. Observation. Welcome to A Thin Place. All of this, maybe more, is a record of my year in Jerusalem - the thinest place on earth.
A "thin place", in Celtic tradition, is someplace, anyplace, where the spiritual world and the mortal world come so close to one another that you almost see, definitely feel, and maybe even can touch the presence of God. I suspect that my life in Israel will contain moments of clarity just like this. The opaque will become translucent, the hazy clear, and God's presence a reality.
After serving congregations in Fairfield, Bridgeport, and Wilton, CT I am the Senior Redevelopment Pastor at Orange Congregational Church in Orange, CT. Prior to that I lived in Jerusalem (the real one) and I have three GORGEOUS children, the loves of my life.
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Wow, you've got the shuk totally covered! Good job. Hope to bump into you there someday, maybe at the halvah stand? (I'll be the other one with the camera.)
Shalom shalom.
In my next incarnation I want to be a vendor in the shuk. When we're in Jerusalem we start each day with a shopping trip to the shuk. Don't forget to try the spice shop near the south entrance.
It's a place unlike no other!
What great photos! I can almost smell the marketplace. Beautiful work. Thanks.
YUM! Great shots. Makes me want to fire Stop & Shop. Wonderful pictures. And very nice friends who respond to your blog.
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I love the pictures of the market. Draws up all kinds of ancient feelings. How long have such markets been in existence! Aren't they at once universal and particular to their setting?
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