To Splash Blessings

Wonderful picnic up on Har Gilboa today, with our kibbutz cousins who have become so comfy, so close, over the year. See how they bundled up as if it were 40 below. To me, it was a Victoria summer day. See, from high up on Gilboa, the fish pools, brechot dagim. Brecha is a pool, and bracha is a blessing. Same root.
A bracha is a blessing,
a braycha, a cool, flowing
place to swim,
to splash water,
fresh,
onto our faces,
to make ourselves new;
to remind ourselves
of the way we felt
the day the world began.