The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Love and realism

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Love and realism

Today is my daughter Haya's 28th birthday.

I found this post (above) on my Facebook feed and was struck by the resemblance of this photo to her.

Oops, it is her.

I had momentarily forgotten that I submitted her photo to the Families SCN2A Foundation Facebook group some months ago.

While I am aware that there is no improvement down the road for Haya, I wish her, at the very least, a year of stability free of crises and of hospitalizations.

I'm opting for realism over optimism these days

We love you Haya.

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About me

The Good is outnumbered two-to-one in the title of my blog. So too it is outweighed on this planet by The Evil, The Corrupt and The Seamy. For the most part, I focus here on those negatives - along with a light sprinkling of The Good.

When I address The Bad and The Ugly here, it’s mainly in relation to two topics: (a) Terrorism and the current Israeli government’s pathetic handling of it; and (b) Children with disabilities and Israel's pathetic handling of them. (I have blogged about this for some years, but under an assumed name.) Also expect occasional digressions to other Bad and Ugly topics that plague Israel. I hope readers will share their thoughts here too.

The murder of my precious daughter Malki, aged fifteen and a half, in the massacre at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001, colors this blog intensely. The life and challenges of my youngest daughter Chaya, profoundly disabled physically and cognitively, colors my discussion of disabilities.

In 1988, I moved to Jerusalem from Queens, NY, following a 12-year-stopover in my husband's hometown, Melbourne, Australia. The law degree I earned decades ago has lain mostly unused ever since and portrait sketching is one of my passions, so those sketches are likely to appear in my posts now and then.