Here I am in sunny California. The weather is perfect. The family is all together, celebrating a birthday party. Children and adults alike are having fun on the water slide, swimming in the pool, and eating tasty BBQ meat.
Despite this, I am here, inside our relatives’ house, constantly checking the news back home. The rising Israeli casualties. The ceasefire agreement as we attempt to win decisively against an organization bent on our destruction.
This trip is for my brother-in-law’s wedding. A time of great joy, not to mention relaxation. And I am having fun. It is just that my fun is always accompanied by a sense of great concern for friends’ back home, not to mention the future of my country.
I cannot rest. I can only worry, hope..and pray.
