To Lightness

Lightness and a Spirit of Adventure.
That's what we need. We're in a very expensive and lavish hotel for a few days: our own house, not rented out this week. And it's high season. So we are the guests nibbling chilled papaya in the lounge chairs under colourful sun umbrellas, looking out at the waves, eating feasts of edible art under the escheresque chandelier, and talking the life of the spirit, the essence of what Israel can be, in this shining, airy space. We've had gorgeous times with each of our guest families. And family by family, they fall in love with this place, and get in touch with their own spiritual selves. Several have decided to buy in Netanya. Lovely for us to prance alone through the house this week, and to prepare for our next guests and the Maccabiah games. To luxury, and to our willingness to be the providers and not the receivers....no, to blur another line, in the spirit of, "It is better to give and to receive". To realize that it is no less luxurious to waltz through this lovely place with a broom and a dustpan, glowing in the pleasure we see on our guests' faces, and in the knowledge that we are sending them more comfortably out to face the intricacies of this multivalent land, where each, no matter what their religion or their point of view, has a complicated bond with the land. Lightness and a spirit of adventure, a slice of papaya and an adjustable Swiss System bed with sheets in colours of papaya, mango and lemons, and matching bathrobes. And fresh towels. And then, go out in to the real world generously, objectively, willing to look and to learn.