My world is shaking (part ii).
(Zero AI – 100% human created content).
It’s shaking more often and stronger. The smell of war is everywhere – on TV and radio, on YouTube recommended videos, and in the news jumping and screaming from every “smart” phone surrounding me people. It vibrates as shrill sirens when I stand at the long red traffic light in Tel Aviv on my way home. The booms are dry and sound close, even if they are a few kilometers up and away. War is something that I learned from the school books, something forgotten when I almost was a part of during the Afghan war, something that always was in the international news on TV.
When I was around 7-9 and I couldn’t fall asleep in the evening, frightened by the rumors about impending nuclear strike propagated by the USSR TV news, my mom often repeated calm me down – that in the future there would be no soldiers because there will be no more wars. The promised future is here, and now I calm down my mom and try to not bring her all the shocking shit, happening around us these days. She has now living in my house since the first day of the current war and we spent a lot of “free” time together when I returned back after daily my full-time job in Tel Aviv.
Last weekend I went to a friend’s place in the small Pardes Hana city. They opened and for three weeks on a voluntary basis managed the kitchen, preparing hot food for soldiers, located on the border with Gaza. All products were purchased with donations from residents. It was so inspiring and filled with energy to see these different ages of people daily working together.
I decided about this post spontaneously as the only thing a was able doing now. The next difficult step will be falling asleep. But i will think about a little bit later. The last image is about waiting for the sirens co-workers in the lobby on 44 floor of our building. Usually, i stand there alone and watching an unforgettable film about shooting down Hamas missiles.
Now it’s 00:17 and I’m going to try to sleep with hopes of tomorrow.
Thank you Victor for sharing your realistic part of living in war zone.
From a distance your words are read, the images seen and felt.
The war disturbing torn more and more humans in two different worlds.
Yes, hopes for tomorrow! May your mums words from the past be the truth for tomorrow!!
Safe dreams..
Hoping for tomorrow with you…
Thank you !
It feels like the world is on fire, so yes for a better tomorrow, and stay safe Victor.
Tomorrow is already here. I’m waiting now for the next one, possibly a better one. Yes this world became crazy. I don’t know if there is some centralized process to destroy the liberal part of it. Hope for the “happy” end.
Can’t imagine what it must be like. Glad you are spending time with your mum even though it’s not the ideal circumstances. Stay safe.
Thank you very much for the kind words. Yes, these days I’m spending a lot of time with mom 😉 At least something good in all this complicated situation.
Even from far away these wars are more and more disturbing. We seem to have learned nothing! Please stay safe, and keep documenting what you see. Shalom!
Hi Steve..You said it so right. We learned how to kill each other in a more technological way. Thank you for the support.
Stay safe Victor.
All my problems seem like very small ones right now. I’m disappointed about the promised future, too. Good night, sleep tight…
Thank you very much. Its weekend is starting and i hope not to stay much at home these two days. Even though I don’t feel any joy on weekends already month. I wait for them during the 5 full of stress workdays and when the weekend is coming i feel that better to be busy with something at work.. So stupid feeling and I can’t take it away.
But i know ppl who are staying at home without going to any place except for a quick jump to the local store. Its absolutely crazy.
It is..
So desperately sorry about this whole situation for you and all.
The whole world is on fire but here is the epicenter not because we started this situation, but because it’s part of the whole process. Not your fault but of the fat whales making big money. Thank you for the kind words.
i scrolled over and over through these visions and reading your words it‘s like watching the shattered dreams of
a better world, your shattered dreams of a war just kept into the tv device as something unreal, unworldly, fictious. i am so with you all the time in words and pictures and thoughts. i am with the people, all people seeking peace and friendship and love. but there is so few of it, so so few, and it melts away everyday everywhere and hate rises in so many people‘s hearts and words. it‘s disgusting, it’s heartbreaking, it’s unspeakable. the world is shaking … and how can it ever been calmed down again? love, hon. here with you and for you for the better and for the worse!
Hi Tillian (sorry, i use your alias in public). So thank you for the kind words. I remember a hundred of our endless conversations in Jerusalem and in TelAviv and in Munich about how this world will be beautiful and kind very soon. I remember your first ever visit here and the kinda shock you got when you saw this crazy duality and a lot of armed people on the streets. The numbers of armed people now rose again to the same if no bigger amounts. And if there is a weapon – someone will use it. Hugs darling !
that‘s right, hon. lets keep talking like that, thinking like that, hoping for that, working for that. and lets have some beer at the sea as soon as possible, lets play some chords in your garden, lets have a walk in the desert and lets have a night up on the plateau. in peace. for everybody!
The ❤️ WORDS !!!
I continue to struggle with everything that is happening in your part of the world now. I long for the day when you all can live in peace and harmony. I pray that you will stay safe.
Thank you Brian. This worked well for Putin as usual turn all attention to another hot spot and now feel free to do whatever in Ukraine.
…when MAN paints expectations against the will of LIFE with black pitch.
The horrors committed by Hamas are indescribable, however, the children of Gaza are not to blame. We have equal responsibility to all of them no matter which side of the barbed wire they are on. This pitch also affects Ukraine. We cannot continue to be indifferent to the legacy of hatred as well as religious manipulation and political cynicism.
Russia is happy with this clearly diverting attention to the shameful rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad.
I’ve read and felt the human spirit even trough your photos, thx so much for sharing with us the other view.
I’m aiming this coas ends fast and you and yours will be ok. I’m sharing with you a song “Who by Fire” composed by Leonard Cohen during Yom Kippur war, in 1973. Keep safe Victor, a huge hug
https://youtu.be/251Blni2AE4?si=ZM1CbLO7H2DqHb_p
Wow Antonio it’s impossible to explain in a few words the situation better than you did. I’m waiting for the fast end of all this and a long life for everybody. Thank you for sharing this beautiful song.
Wonderful photography. 😀
Thank you very much for taking a look and for the kind words !