Mika is my 26 kilo, “Canaanee”, or in the USA, Canaan Dog. She is a beautiful animal, very smart, prefers to lead not follow, and her breed were guard dogs, by sheep herders for thousands of years to protect herds of sheep from wild animals. Mika is my constant companion and until recently walked outside with me 6 kilometres a day on 4 to 5 walks. She came into our home a year and a half ago, and was already a year old. She was a “wild dog” and stray before she |
wandered into the garden of one of my wife’s former students who was heading off to college and had to find a new home for her. It was meant to be as she is great with just about anyone.
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After my last blog post, "Circle the Wagons", I made no further posts. I wrote thousands of words that I did not publish, because the changes happening here and in the West were to so devastating to me, including the explosion of antisemitism on the streets of the West and on its college campuses was reminiscent of pre-war Germany and the silent majority that sat on the sidelines and let it happen. Perhaps nobody saw it coming, but hardly anyone outside of the Jewish community took to the streets. Antisemitic violence on the Harvard campus, "depended on the context". Every time I sat down to write, something new and even more unbelievable happened, leaving me with no words.
Perhaps the stress of the news, being the executor of my father's estate, the very personal losses we in Israel are taking every day caused a change in my health. At age 67, I walked 6KM every day with my dog, ate properly, avoided sugar and other chemical food products. I was on top of the World with my health, enjoyed my work and the podcast. I had the tiger by the tail. |
AuthorEric Guth, 4Z1UG / WA6IGR, is the host of the QSO Today Podcast, and an amateur radio operator since 1972. Eric has lived and worked in Israel since 2000. Archives
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