May First

YO!  Beginning of the fifth month of 2014, already…

When I was a child, we used to have parades with red flags in the city of Tel-Aviv for the May 1st celebration.  Labour Day, the Day of all the Workers in the World, or some such thing it was called.  I think I even carried one such flag, once. 

I knew it had to do with the Russian Revolution; that many of the Jewish people around me escaped from Russia but were Socialists, and that we are all little people with important jobs of building a new country so we have a bunch of Kibbutzim and that's why we parade on the first of May.

My knowledge did not grow much on that subject, and if it did - I forgot all of it by now.  Today, I did not see one red flag nor heard of parades… at least not in Nahariya.

119th Day of Praise -

I thank You Mighty God for gathering Your people from everywhere; for helping them to build a renewed land to live in, and for using whatever ideology available that worked to bring them over here. Thank You God for Israel.

Glad to be Home,

Orith