Layer Not

September 22, 2017September 22, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Memoriam, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Current events, Dignity, History, Holocaust, humanity, memories, Never Again, Photo Challenge, Photography, Slavery 4 Comments

Photo: Ofir Asif

Some photos of a layered world aren’t pretty. Some are there to remind us of history that shouldn’t have happened yet did: People stacked in slave ships’ holds. People forced to march. People warehoused in concentration camps. People massacred. People just like us … stripped of dignity. Dehumanized.

And yet. People they each were. Each one a universe of thoughts and soul and feelings. Each one worthy. Each a human being.

Layered in the bowels of our collective histories are memories that hurt as the agony they resurrect is peeled away so they be seen. And yet they may be there exactly to remind us what we should know … and never repeat.

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A Leaf’s Goodbye

September 22, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Photography, Quotes, Reflections, Writing Tags: Autumnal Equinox, Equinox, Fall, foliage, goodbye, Photography, Poetry, Summer's end, The Daily Post, Turn of Seasons 4 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

At the turn of seasons

As days give in to added night

And cool air infiltrates

The warmth of sun,

A leaf’s goodbye.

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Mighty Layered

September 21, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Crater, Desert, Geology, History, Nature, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, The Daily Post 5 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

In the mighty desert

Old times loom.

Layers of crushed history

Pressed by ancient rain

By ash and mud

Bones and sand.

Carved craters

Cleaved by flaming travelers

Hurling from

Beyond the sun.

Pressed down eras

Sandwiched by eternity

And painted

In primordial

Deposits:

Iron

Copper

Lime.

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Layered Shelter

September 20, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Craftsmanship, Greece, Layered, Photo Challenge, Photography, Shelter, Weathered 4 Comments

Photo: Inbar Asif

I am mesmerized by this photo of roof in Greece, taken by my niece (hey, I rhyme!).

The weathered slate, the overlapping chipped tiles that had seen more winters than any human could and many more still before they had been hewed into order by mankind to provide heavy, steady, shelter from rain and wind and sun.

The stark contrast of the chimney stone. Orderly. Newish. Mortar sandwiched between bricks. Standing out like a new-kid-on-the-block yet in truth only relatively … for it, too, had already seen life’s smoke swirl up to numerously different skies.

Even the odd bits. Leaning, slanted. Metal. Wood. A ledge. A mini-roof covered by yet another one. Mismatched and somehow all part of this layered shelter. Angled. Rough. Tangible.

A roof to rely on.

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“Just a Little Bit of Crumbs”

September 20, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Quotes, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: Anecdotes, bargaining, Compromise, Creative thinking, Funny, parenting, The Daily Post, Things Kids Say 6 Comments

Photo: Knoell8504, https://commons.wikimedia.org/

It was a few minutes before dinner.

He wanted a cookie.

His mother said the timing wasn’t great. He’ll have to wait. Can get one for dessert.

He frowned. His lips turned down in a pout but puckered in consideration as his eyes inspected the contents of the transparent cookie jar.

“But maybe I can taste it now,” he bargained. “Just a teeny tiny cookie, like this,” he pointed to a broken piece at the bottom of the jar. “You see, Mama? Just a little bit of crumbs …”

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