"You will need to be brave. There are hard days coming. There are hard words waiting in people’s mouths to be spoken. There are walls. You can’t brea… - Naomi Shihab Nye

Jerusalem is so permeated with layers and textures, minglings of all kinds that, once you've lived there you don't get over it.

I feel very close to that part of each of us which remains young, idealistic, and curious. (2019)

I think that is very important, not feeling separate from text — feeling your thoughts as text or the world as it passes through you as a kind of text; the story that you would be telling to yourself about the street even as you walk down it or as you drive down it; as you look out the window, the story you would be telling. It always seemed very much to me, as a child, that I was living in a poem — that my life was the poem.