Maybe They Are

I am thirsty but the bus is so crowded I can’t get to the bag with the water. My eyes drink in the landscape that satiates the soul.

The man behind us — whose eight children are behind us next to us and under our feet — doesn’t stop talking because he is so excited about EVERYTHING.

“You see the palm trees the dates theDead Sea?”

Then he announces to his children with great enthusiasm that they will soon be going toMountGilboaand there he will teach them all about the war of Shaul HaMelech. The kids don’t really know who Shaul was or where Gilboa is but they know their father is excited about it and that they will remember. This man with all the excitement and love of the land and his children and life needed an escort to get on the bus because he has some kind of physical disability.