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TORONTO TIME
I loved reading all the birthday messages. If I had time, I would answer you all individually, but my flight to Toronto is close at hand. Unfortunately, this 2-week trip is not for fun, but to help my mother through a difficult time.
ROAMING!
Amazingly, I am off again, this time for a 4-day whiz around ROME! See you all next week!
December 19: Back to the grind after a fabulous (albeit rainy) visit to the over-the-top city of piazzas, palazzos and pizzas.
THE GILA SHUTTLE
Leaving tonight, October 23, for an 11-day mad dash from Tel Aviv to New York to Rhode Island to Boston to Athens and back again. For the moment, toodle-oo!
Nov. 4: Home again. Wow, what a trip, and thank you, thank you, thank you VTers: Lionreb for helping us discover Rhode Island and Janetanne for that splendid introduction to Athens!
ISRAEL WORLDMEET , SEPTEMBER 2008
JULY2 (Louise) , EKATERINBURG (Katherine), ANGIEBABE (Angela), A2LOPES (Antonio), MACADONIANUK (Valentina) & husband + adorable daughter, FRUITLOVER (Avi) - I LOVED HOSTING YOU ALL.
Now I know for a fact that VTers are not just cyberpeople. THEY ARE FOR REAL.
Thank you all for broadening my world - without even leaving my house!
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| MY BACKYARD - JERUSALEM BOTANICAL GARDENS |
|  | I never thought of myself as a traveler until someone on this site looked at my travel map and said so. Well, how do you like that? Now that I think about it, maybe I am.
I started out in Gloversville, New York - yes, the place where they make gloves - where I was born. From there, I spent a short time in Rego Park, Queens before moving to Brooklyn, New York and then Flushing, Queens. In high school, I spent a year in Israel and decided that was the place for me. At the age of 18, I headed for Jerusalem and that's where I've been ever since - with forays into the big, wide world every so often.
In the course of visiting my family, which is rather large and spread out, I have been to Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Toronto. And then, of course, there have been some fun trips to places like Orlando, Shenandoah Valley, Washington DC, Sinai, Paris, Venice, Rome, Florence, London, Prague, Barcelona and Istanbul.
Oh my gosh, look at the list. I am a traveler. And now that my four children are seriously on the way to growing up, I'm getting the itch for more.
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Birth of a Traveler "Those feet were made for walkin,'
And that's just what they'll do..."
See those little footprints? They're mine. Bet you never saw a birth certificate like that! I think they only issued them at the Gloversville hospital where I was born. So putting together all the pieces of the jigsaw, I guess I was just cut out to be a traveler... | | |
| | Not only herself Now, I'm sure you noticed my motto up there with the emphasis on "herself." The following pages are not, by any stretch of the imagination, a complete travel guide to this or that location. What I am doing is writing about things that touched ME in some way. So, these are my thoughts and my take on the places I have passed through in my life.
Helping me illustrate my thoughts are photographs. Some are my own work, but some of the best ones are taken by my brother Eliel, who is great at character portraits, and two of my boys, Aron and Hanan, who are talented at capturing landscapes and fleeting moments in time. |
I paint, therefore I am... Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow.
(from T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men") | | |
| | "REMEMBER TO BUILD YOUR LIFE
AS IF IT WERE A PIECE OF
ART"
( A. J. Heschel)
To read one of my short stories, have a look at my Great Barrington page.
(See more paintings on my Zichron Yaakov and Beersheva pages) |
A New Career: Mother-in-Law
On November 10, 2005, we welcomed Marcel into our family. Marcel and my oldest son, Aron, were married on a terrace overlooking the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. | | | NETANELLA, NOAM, GILA, ARON, HAYIM, HANAN & MARCEL |
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| | MAY 2007 - My Latest Venture into the Wild Blue Yonder:
A 4-day whirl around Rhodes has left my head whirling. I have lots to say about this little island. For starters, masses of people go to Rhodes to lie on a beach chair or drink mind-boggling quantities of beer served in a huge glass boot. I am not one of them.
January 2008 Update:
As usual, it has taken time, but I have now written FIVE whole tips on Rhodes. In the meantime, I've been on the road again: I spent 3 weeks in New York in December. |
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ophiro Thu Jun 25, 2009 18:34 UTC
Happy belated birthday wishes | magor65 Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:26 UTC
A little belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes, Gila! I hope you enjoyed the day to the full. | zanzooni Thu Jun 18, 2009 03:55 UTC
Happy Happy! To my favorite Israelite. ~ | DAO Wed Jun 17, 2009 22:44 UTC
Happy Birthday Gila! Hope you had a great day. |
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