Better Happy Than Sad

November 4, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Choices, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, friends, Jerusalem, Juice, Micro-fiction, Relationships, The Old City 45 Comments

“You think he’ll win?”

Shlomi shrugged. Elections or not, he was distracted by the scents wafting from the cart across the stone-paved alley. His wife would kill him if he drank any of the juices. Diabetes would kill him, too. So it was just a matter of whether it’ll happen on his terms.

Or not.

He sighed.

“Get that pomegranate juice,” Abdul urged. “You know no one makes it like my father does.”

Better die happy than sad.

“Abu Abdul,” Shlomi called across the narrow alley. “One pomegranate?”

“For sure, Habibi,” the old man grinned. “Want that fake-sugar in there?”

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

Fates and Faiths

January 19, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Archetypes, belief, History, Jerusalem, Past and Future, Patterns, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, The Old City, WitsEndChallenge 4 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

In the depths of the city

Where new rubs shoulders

With old,

Uncounted passes of prayers

And woven statements

Enfold,

Fates and faiths of what’s been

And may yet find

Better ways

To be told.

For Wits-End Weekend Photo Challenge: repeating patterns

Time To Unlock

October 13, 2018October 13, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: better future, Etymology, Faith, History, Jerusalem, Old City, Peace, Photography, Understanding, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 4 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

Morning bells reverberated in the ancient alleyways, echoing against well-worn stone.

He rose to make his way from the humble room he slept in, to the place of worship his soul knew as his actual home.

The Old City of Jerusalem. The holy place named for harmony, recompense, greeting, and – with hopes for higher roads to be achieved – for wholeness, safety, and peace.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Unlock in 63 words